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In this work, we address the challenge of encoding speech captured by a microphone array using deep learning techniques with the aim of preserving and accurately reconstructing crucial spatial cues embedded in multi-channel recordings. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhongweiyang Xu , Yong Xu , Vinay Kothapally , Heming Wang , Muqiao Yang , Dong Yu

Spatial audio signal enhancement aims to reduce interfering source contributions while preserving the desired sound field with its spatial cues. Existing methods generally rely on impractical assumptions (e.g. accurate estimations of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Huawei Zhang , Jihui Zhang , Huiyuan Sun , Prasanga Samarasinghe

Recent progress on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) has enabled overlap-aware speaker diarization with a single neural network. This paper proposes to enhance EEND by using multi-channel signals from distributed microphones. We replace…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Yohei Kawaguchi

The key advantage of using multiple microphones for speech enhancement is that spatial filtering can be used to complement the tempo-spectral processing. In a traditional setting, linear spatial filtering (beamforming) and single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

To improve speaker verification in real scenarios with interference speakers, noise, and reverberation, we propose to bring together advancements made in multi-channel speech features. Specifically, we combine spectral, spatial, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Saurabh Kataria , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

When using artificial neural networks for multichannel speech enhancement, filtering is often achieved by estimating a complex-valued mask that is applied to all or one reference channel of the input signal. The estimation of this mask is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Annika Briegleb , Walter Kellermann

We propose a multi-channel speech enhancement approach with a novel two-stage feature fusion method and a pre-trained acoustic model in a multi-task learning paradigm. In the first fusion stage, the time-domain and frequency-domain features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Quandong Wang , Junnan Wu , Zhao Yan , Sichong Qian , Liyong Guo , Lichun Fan , Weiji Zhuang , Peng Gao , Yujun Wang

The end-to-end approach for single-channel speech separation has been studied recently and shown promising results. This paper extended the previous approach and proposed a new end-to-end model for multi-channel speech separation. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Rongzhi Gu , Jian Wu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Current multichannel speech enhancement algorithms typically assume a stationary sound source, a common mismatch with reality that limits their performance in real-world scenarios. This paper focuses on attention-driven spatial filtering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

The use of spatial information with multiple microphones can improve far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracy. However, conventional microphone array techniques degrade speech enhancement performance when there is an array…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Minhua Wu , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

Current multi-channel speech enhancement systems mainly adopt single-output architecture, which face significant challenges in preserving spatio-temporal signal integrity during multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) processing. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Lu Han , Junqi Zhao , Renhua Peng

Decoding the directional focus of an attended speaker from listeners' electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is essential for developing brain-computer interfaces to improve the quality of life for individuals with hearing impairment. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuanming Zhang , Jing Lu , Fei Chen , Haoliang Du , Xia Gao , Zhibin Lin

We present a novel model designed for resource-efficient multichannel speech enhancement in the time domain, with a focus on low latency, lightweight, and low computational requirements. The proposed model incorporates explicit spatial and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

We propose an efficient method to estimate source power spectral densities (PSDs) in a multi-source reverberant environment using a spherical microphone array. The proposed method utilizes the spatial correlation between the spherical…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Abdullah Fahim , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Most of the current deep learning-based approaches for speech enhancement only operate in the spectrogram or waveform domain. Although a cross-domain transformer combining waveform- and spectrogram-domain inputs has been proposed, its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jialu Li , Junhui Li , Pu Wang , Youshan Zhang

This paper addresses the problem of multi-channel multi-speech separation based on deep learning techniques. In the short time Fourier transform domain, we propose an end-to-end narrow-band network that directly takes as input the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

Recently, we proposed short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-based loss functions for training a neural speech waveform model. In this paper, we generalize the above framework and propose a training scheme for such models based on spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Shinji Takaki , Hirokazu Kameoka , Junichi Yamagishi

We present a hybrid framework that leverages the trade-off between temporal and frequency precision in audio representations to improve the performance of speech enhancement task. We first show that conventional approaches using specific…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-24 Jang-Hyun Kim , Jaejun Yoo , Sanghyuk Chun , Adrian Kim , Jung-Woo Ha

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang