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This study proposes a fully convolutional network (FCN) model for raw waveform-based speech enhancement. The proposed system performs speech enhancement in an end-to-end (i.e., waveform-in and waveform-out) manner, which dif-fers from most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-16 Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully used for speech enhancement, and DNN-based speech enhancement is becoming an attractive research area. While time-frequency masking based on the short-time Fourier transform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Yuichiro Koyama , Tyler Vuong , Stefan Uhlich , Bhiksha Raj

Most speech enhancement algorithms make use of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), which is a simple and flexible time-frequency decomposition that estimates the short-time spectrum of a signal. However, the duration of short STFT…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Scott Wisdom , Thomas Powers , Les Atlas , James Pitton

In recent years, deep networks have led to dramatic improvements in speech enhancement by framing it as a data-driven pattern recognition problem. In many modern enhancement systems, large amounts of data are used to train a deep network to…

The primary objective of speech enhancement is to reduce background noise while preserving the target's speech. A common dilemma occurs when a speaker is confined to a noisy environment and receives a call with high background and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Amanda Shu , Hamza Khalid , Haohui Liu , Shikhar Agnihotri , Joseph Konan , Ojas Bhargave

Speech enhancement is an essential task of improving speech quality in noise scenario. Several state-of-the-art approaches have introduced visual information for speech enhancement,since the visual aspect of speech is essentially unaffected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Xinmeng Xu , Yang Wang , Dongxiang Xu , Yiyuan Peng , Cong Zhang , Jie Jia , Binbin Chen

To address the monaural speech enhancement problem, numerous research studies have been conducted to enhance speech via operations either in time-domain on the inner-domain learned from the speech mixture or in time--frequency domain on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Contemporary speech enhancement predominantly relies on audio transforms that are trained to reconstruct a clean speech waveform. The development of high-performing neural network sound recognition systems has raised the possibility of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Mark R. Saddler , Andrew Francl , Jenelle Feather , Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Josh H. McDermott

This paper proposes SEFGAN, a Deep Neural Network (DNN) combining maximum likelihood training and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for efficient speech enhancement (SE). For this, a DNN is trained to synthesize the enhanced speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Martin Strauss , Nicola Pia , Nagashree K. S. Rao , Bernd Edler

The speech enhancement task usually consists of removing additive noise or reverberation that partially mask spoken utterances, affecting their intelligibility. However, little attention is drawn to other, perhaps more aggressive signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Santiago Pascual , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte

Generalization remains a major problem in supervised learning of single-channel speech enhancement. In this work, we propose learnable loss mixup (LLM), a simple and effortless training diagram, to improve the generalization of deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Oscar Chang , Dung N. Tran , Kazuhito Koishida

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used for speech emotion recognition (SER). In such cases, the short time fourier transform (STFT) spectrogram is the most popular choice for representing speech, which is fed as input to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Shruti Gupta , Md. Shah Fahad , Akshay Deepak

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-channel speech enhancement system in which a DNN is trained to maximize the quality of the enhanced time-domain signal. DNN-based multi-channel speech enhancement is often…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yoshiki Masuyama , Masahito Togami , Tatsuya Komatsu

We investigate the viability of a variational U-Net architecture for denoising of single-channel audio data. Deep network speech enhancement systems commonly aim to estimate filter masks, or opt to work on the waveform signal, potentially…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

Speech enhancement is critical for improving speech intelligibility and quality in various audio devices. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have significantly improved speech enhancement performance, but they often come with a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Chenxiang Ma , Qu Yang , Jibin Wu , Kay Chen Tan

Speech enhancement involves the distinction of a target speech signal from an intrusive background. Although generative approaches using Variational Autoencoders or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have increasingly been used in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Martin Strauss , Bernd Edler

Enhancing coded speech suffering from far-end acoustic background noise, quantization noise, and potentially transmission errors, is a challenging task. In this work we propose two postprocessing approaches applying convolutional neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-25 Ziyue Zhao , Huijun Liu , Tim Fingscheidt

Single-channel signal separation and deconvolution aims to separate and deconvolve individual sources from a single-channel mixture and is a challenging problem in which no prior knowledge of the mixing filters is available. Both individual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Qiuqiang Kong , Yong Xu , Wenwu Wang , Philip J. B. Jackson , Mark D. Plumbley

Single-channel speech enhancement is a challenging ill-posed problem focused on estimating clean speech from degraded signals. Existing studies have demonstrated the competitive performance of combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Zizhen Lin , Junyu Wang , Ruili Li , Fei Shen , Xi Xuan