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In recent years, much speech separation research has focused primarily on improving model performance. However, for low-latency speech processing systems, high efficiency is equally important. Therefore, we propose a speech separation model…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohan Xu , Kai Li , Guo Chen , Xiaolin Hu

In this paper, we propose NEC (Neural Enhanced Cancellation), a defense mechanism, which prevents unauthorized microphones from capturing a target speaker's voice. Compared with the existing scrambling-based audio cancellation approaches,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Hanqing Guo , Chenning Li , Lingkun Li , Zhichao Cao , Qiben Yan , Li Xiao

Deep learning on an edge device requires energy efficient operation due to ever diminishing power budget. Intentional low quality data during the data acquisition for longer battery life, and natural noise from the low cost sensor degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Taesik Na , Minah Lee , Burhan A. Mudassar , Priyabrata Saha , Jong Hwan Ko , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Over the past few years, speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have greatly surpassed traditional methods based on spectral subtraction and spectral estimation. Many of these new techniques operate directly in the the short-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Neerad Phansalkar , Ritwik Giri , Karim Helwani , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

In this paper, we present Extreme Bandwidth Extension Network (EBEN), a Generative Adversarial network (GAN) that enhances audio measured with body-conduction microphones. This type of capture equipment suppresses ambient noise at the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Julien Hauret , Thomas Joubaud , Véronique Zimpfer , Éric Bavu

We introduce EffiFusion-GAN (Efficient Fusion Generative Adversarial Network), a lightweight yet powerful model for speech enhancement. The model integrates depthwise separable convolutions within a multi-scale block to capture diverse…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bin Wen , Tien-Ping Tan

In real-world settings, speech signals are almost always affected by reverberation produced by the working environment; these corrupted signals need to be \emph{dereverberated} prior to performing, e.g., speech recognition, speech-to-text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Diego León , Felipe Tobar

The goal of this paper is to investigate the speech signal enhancement using Kernel Affine Projection Algorithm (KAPA) and Normalized KAPA. The removal of background noise is very important in many applications like speech recognition,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Bolimera Ravi , T. Kishore Kumar

Achieving a balance between lightweight design and high performance remains a significant challenge for speech enhancement (SE) tasks on resource-constrained devices. Existing state-of-the-art methods, such as MUSE, have established a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinxin Tang , Bin Qin , Yufang Li

In response to the increasing interest in human--machine communication across various domains, this paper introduces a novel approach called iPhonMatchNet, which addresses the challenge of barge-in scenarios, wherein user speech overlaps…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Yong-Hyeok Lee , Namhyun Cho

This paper aims at eliminating the interfering speakers' speech, additive noise, and reverberation from the noisy multi-talker speech mixture that benefits automatic speech recognition (ASR) backend. While the recently proposed Weighted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Zhaoheng Ni , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Bo Wu , Shixiong Zhang , Dong Yu , Michael I Mandel

Lightweight models are essential for real-time speech enhancement applications. In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward developing increasingly compact models for speech enhancement. In this paper, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Xiaobin Rong , Leyan Yang , Dahan Wang , Yuxiang Hu , Changbao Zhu , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

Deep learning speech separation algorithms have achieved great success in improving the quality and intelligibility of separated speech from mixed audio. Most previous methods focused on generating a single-channel output for each of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Cong Han , Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shulin He , Wei Rao , Jinjiang Liu , Jun Chen , Yukai Ju , Xueliang Zhang , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang

Utilizing a human-perception-related objective function to train a speech enhancement model has become a popular topic recently. The main reason is that the conventional mean squared error (MSE) loss cannot represent auditory perception…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Szu-Wei Fu , Chien-Feng Liao , Yu Tsao

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

Biological measurements are often contaminated with large amounts of non-stationary noise which require effective noise reduction techniques. We present a new real-time deep learning algorithm which produces adaptively a signal opposing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Bernd Porr , Sama Daryanavard , Lucía Muñoz Bohollo , Henry Cowan , Bernd Porr , Ravinder Dahiya

Content and style representations have been widely studied in the field of style transfer. In this paper, we propose a new loss function using speaker content representation for audio source separation, and we call it speaker representation…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Seongkyu Mun , Soyeon Choe , Jaesung Huh , Joon Son Chung

The traditional adaptive algorithms will face the non-uniqueness problem when dealing with stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC). In this paper, we first propose an efficient multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) scheme based on deep…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Chenggang Zhang , Jinjiang Liu , Xueliang Zhang

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li