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In this paper, we address the problem of single-microphone speech separation in the presence of ambient noise. We propose a generative unsupervised technique that directly models both clean speech and structured noise components, training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yochai Yemini , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

In this paper, we explore an improved framework to train a monoaural neural enhancement model for robust speech recognition. The designed training framework extends the existing mixture invariant training criterion to exploit both unpaired…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

In this paper, we are interested in unsupervised (unknown noise) audio-visual speech enhancement based on variational autoencoders (VAEs), where the probability distribution of clean speech spectra is simulated using an encoder-decoder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Mostafa Sadeghi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While these models generalize well to unseen acoustic environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yudong Yang , Zhan Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Qiuqiang Kong , Chao Zhang

Conditional diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in various generative tasks, but training them requires large-scale datasets that often contain noise in conditional inputs, a.k.a. noisy labels. This noise leads to condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Byeonghu Na , Yeongmin Kim , HeeSun Bae , Jung Hyun Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

Existing deep learning-based speech denoising approaches require clean speech signals to be available for training. This paper presents a deep learning-based approach to improve speech denoising in real-world audio environments by not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Nasim Alamdari , Arian Azarang , Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown significant improvements in recent years for speech enhancement. However, the model complexity and inference time cost of RNNs are much higher than deep feed-forward neural networks (DNNs).…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Leichao Song

In this work, we propose DiffWave, a versatile diffusion probabilistic model for conditional and unconditional waveform generation. The model is non-autoregressive, and converts the white noise signal into structured waveform through a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Zhifeng Kong , Wei Ping , Jiaji Huang , Kexin Zhao , Bryan Catanzaro

In this paper we consider the problem of speech enhancement in real-world like conditions where multiple noises can simultaneously corrupt speech. Most of the current literature on speech enhancement focus primarily on presence of single…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anurag Kumar , Dinei Florencio

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art generative performance and have been used as strong pixel-level representation learners. This paper decomposes the interrelation between the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zixuan Pan , Jianxu Chen , Yiyu Shi

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) and their extensions have emerged as competitive generative models yet confront challenges of efficient sampling. We propose a new bilateral denoising diffusion model (BDDM) that parameterizes both the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Dan Su , Dong Yu

For enhancing noisy signals, machine-learning based single-channel speech enhancement schemes exploit prior knowledge about typical speech spectral structures. To ensure a good generalization and to meet requirements in terms of…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Robert Rehr , Timo Gerkmann

Monaural speech enhancement has made dramatic advances since the introduction of deep learning a few years ago. Although enhanced speech has been demonstrated to have better intelligibility and quality for human listeners, feeding it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-14 Peidong Wang , Ke Tan , DeLiang Wang

To further reduce the complexity of lightweight speech enhancement models, we introduce a gating-based Dynamically Slimmable Network (DSN). The DSN comprises static and dynamic components. For architecture-independent applicability, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Haixin Zhao , Kaixuan Yang , Nilesh Madhu

Supervised speech enhancement relies on parallel databases of degraded speech signals and their clean reference signals during training. This setting prohibits the use of real-world degraded speech data that may better represent the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Yangyang Xia , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to recover clean speech from noisy multi-channel recordings. Most deep learning methods employ discriminative training, which can lead to non-linear distortions from regression-based objectives,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu

Speech enhancement deep learning systems usually require large amounts of training data to operate in broad conditions or real applications. This makes the adaptability of those systems into new, low resource environments an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Santiago Pascual , Maruchan Park , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte , Kang-Hun Ahn

Due to the superior modeling ability of deep neural network (DNN), it is widely used in voice activity detection (VAD). However, the performance may degrade if no sufficient data especially for practical data could be used for training,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Lu Ma , Xiaomeng Zhang , Pei Zhao , Tengrong Su

Despite significant advances in deep models for music generation, the use of these techniques remains restricted to expert users. Before being democratized among musicians, generative models must first provide expressive control over the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ninon Devis , Nils Demerlé , Sarah Nabi , David Genova , Philippe Esling

Diadochokinetic speech tasks (DDK), in which participants repeatedly produce syllables, are commonly used as part of the assessment of speech motor impairments. These studies rely on manual analyses that are time-intensive, subjective, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Yael Segal , Kasia Hitczenko , Matthew Goldrick , Adam Buchwald , Angela Roberts , Joseph Keshet