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In this paper, we propose to extend the deep, complex U-Network architecture for speech enhancement by incorporating a probabilistic (i.e., variational) latent space model. The proposed model is evaluated against several ablated versions of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Eike J. Nustede , Jörn Anemüller

FullSubNet is our recently proposed real-time single-channel speech enhancement network that achieves outstanding performance on the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge dataset. A number of variants of FullSubNet have been proposed, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Xiang Hao , Xiaofei Li

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

This paper investigates different trade-offs between the number of model parameters and enhanced speech qualities by employing several deep tensor-to-vector regression models for speech enhancement. We find that a hybrid architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Jun Qi , Hu Hu , Yannan Wang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Chin-Hui Lee

The front-end module in multi-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems mainly use microphone array techniques to produce enhanced signals in noisy conditions with reverberation and echos. Recently, neural network (NN) based…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Yuxiang Kong , Jian Wu , Quandong Wang , Peng Gao , Weiji Zhuang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

For most of the state-of-the-art speech enhancement techniques, a spectrogram is usually preferred than the respective time-domain raw data since it reveals more compact presentation together with conspicuous temporal information over a…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Syu-Siang Wang , Alan Chern , Yu Tsao , Jeih-weih Hung , Xugang Lu , Ying-Hui Lai , Borching Su

Multi-channel speech enhancement extracts speech using multiple microphones that capture spatial cues. Effectively utilizing directional information is key for multi-channel enhancement. Deep learning shows great potential on multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jiahui Pan , Pengjie Shen , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

Recent single-channel speech enhancement methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results, but there are still generalization problems in real scenes. Like other data-driven methods, DNN-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Andong Li , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Speech quality and intelligibility are significantly degraded in noisy environments. This paper presents a novel transformer-based learning framework to address the single-channel noise suppression problem for real-time applications.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Behnaz Bahmei , Siamak Arzanpour , Elina Birmingham

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

Two-stage pipeline is popular in speech enhancement tasks due to its superiority over traditional single-stage methods. The current two-stage approaches usually enhance the magnitude spectrum in the first stage, and further modify the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Yuewei Zhang , Huanbin Zou , Jie Zhu

In the process of recording, storage and transmission of time-domain audio signals, errors may be introduced that are difficult to correct in an unsupervised way. Here, we train a convolutional deep neural network to re-synthesize input…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Andrew J. R. Simpson

This paper proposes DroFiT (Drone Frequency lightweight Transformer for speech enhancement, a single microphone speech enhancement network for severe drone self-noise. DroFit integrates a frequency-wise Transformer with a full/sub-band…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Jeongmin Lee , Chanhong Jeon , Hyungjoo Seo , Taewook Kang

Despite noise suppression being a mature area in signal processing, it remains highly dependent on fine tuning of estimator algorithms and parameters. In this paper, we demonstrate a hybrid DSP/deep learning approach to noise suppression. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jean-Marc Valin

Current speech enhancement (SE) research has largely neglected channel attention and spatial attention, and encoder-decoder architecture-based networks have not adequately considered how to provide efficient inputs to the intermediate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Junyu Wang

In recent years, a number of time-domain speech separation methods have been proposed. However, most of them are very sensitive to the environments and wide domain coverage tasks. In this paper, from the time-frequency domain perspective,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Jiangyu Han , Yanhua Long , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky

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

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

The dominant speech separation models are based on complex recurrent or convolution neural network that model speech sequences indirectly conditioning on context, such as passing information through many intermediate states in recurrent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Jingjing Chen , Qirong Mao , Dong Liu