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Cross-domain speech enhancement (SE) is often faced with severe challenges due to the scarcity of noise and background information in an unseen target domain, leading to a mismatch between training and test conditions. This study puts…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chien-Chun Wang , Li-Wei Chen , Hung-Shin Lee , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang

This paper presents our latest investigations on improving automatic speech recognition for noisy speech via speech enhancement. We propose a novel method named Multi-discriminators CycleGAN to reduce noise of input speech and therefore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Chia-Yu Li , Ngoc Thang Vu

Speech enhancement (SE) improves communication in noisy environments, affecting areas such as automatic speech recognition, hearing aids, and telecommunications. With these domains typically being power-constrained and event-based while…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tao Sun , Sander Bohté

In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

In this paper, we present a method that allows to further improve speech enhancement obtained with recently introduced Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. We propose a multi-channel refinement method of time-frequency masks obtained with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Julitta Bartolewska , Stanisław Kacprzak , Konrad Kowalczyk

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) currently achieve the state-of-the-art sound synthesis quality for pitched musical instruments using a 2-channel spectrogram representation consisting of log magnitude and instantaneous frequency (the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Chitralekha Gupta , Purnima Kamath , Lonce Wyse

Noise robustness is a key aspect of successful speech applications. Speech enhancement (SE) has been investigated to improve automatic speech recognition accuracy; however, its effectiveness for keyword spotting (KWS) is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Avamarie Brueggeman , Takuya Higuchi , Masood Delfarah , Stephen Shum , Vineet Garg

Conventional speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve speech perception and intelligibility by suppressing noise without requiring enrollment speech as reference, whereas personalized SE (PSE) addresses the cocktail party problem by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ziling Huang , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

Speech enhancement significantly improves the clarity and intelligibility of speech in noisy environments, improving communication and listening experiences. In this paper, we introduce a novel pretraining feature-guided diffusion model…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

In this paper, we propose a deep learning (DL)-based parameter enhancement method for a mixed excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech codec in noisy communication environment. Unlike conventional speech enhancement modules that are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Min-Jae Hwang , Hong-Goo Kang

Supervised speech enhancement has gained significantly from recent advancements in neural networks, especially due to their ability to non-linearly fit the diverse representations of target speech, such as waveform or spectrum. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Rui Cao , Tianrui Wang , Meng Ge , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We propose a multi-dimensional structured state space (S4) approach to speech enhancement. To better capture the spectral dependencies across the frequency axis, we focus on modifying the multi-dimensional S4 layer with whitening…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Pin-Jui Ku , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Chin-Hui Lee

An initial real-time speech enhancement method is presented to reduce the effects of additive noise. The method operates in the frequency domain and is a form of spectral subtraction. Initially, minimum statistics are used to generate an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Georgios Ioannides , Vasilios Rallis

This study proposes a trainable adaptive window switching (AWS) method and apply it to a deep-neural-network (DNN) for speech enhancement in the modified discrete cosine transform domain. Time-frequency (T-F) mask processing in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-21 Yuma Koizumi , Noboru Harada , Yoichi Haneda

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for single-channel speech enhancement using deep learning methods has recently become a popular research field with promising results. In this paper, we propose a novel components loss (CL) for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Ziyi Xu , Samy Elshamy , Ziyue Zhao , Tim Fingscheidt

We investigated an enhancement and a domain adaptation approach to make speaker verification systems robust to perturbations of far-field speech. In the enhancement approach, using paired (parallel) reverberant-clean speech, we trained a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Saurabh Kataria , Paola García-Perera , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

This paper describes our submission to the L3DAS22 Challenge Task 1, which consists of speech enhancement with 3D Ambisonic microphones. The core of our approach combines Deep Neural Network (DNN) driven complex spectral mapping with linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Yen-Ju Lu , Samuele Cornell , Xuankai Chang , Wangyou Zhang , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

Recently, phase processing is attracting increasinginterest in speech enhancement community. Some researchersintegrate phase estimations module into speech enhancementmodels by using complex-valued short-time Fourier transform(STFT)…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Xingjian Du , Mengyao Zhu , Xuan Shi , Xinpeng Zhang , Wen Zhang , Jingdong Chen

The fundamental frequency (F0) contour of speech is a key aspect to represent speech prosody that finds use in speech and spoken language analysis such as voice conversion and speech synthesis as well as speaker and language identification.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-09 Akihiro Kato , Tomi Kinnunen

Multi-frame algorithms for single-channel speech enhancement are able to take advantage from short-time correlations within the speech signal. Deep Filtering (DF) was proposed to directly estimate a complex filter in frequency domain to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Hendrik Schröter , Tobias Rosenkranz , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Andreas Maier