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Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

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

Speech enhancement aims to obtain speech signals with high intelligibility and quality from noisy speech. Recent work has demonstrated the excellent performance of time-domain deep learning methods, such as Conv-TasNet. However, these…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Feiyang Xiao , Jian Guan , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang

Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà

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

The intelligibility of speech severely degrades in the presence of environmental noise and reverberation. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based system for modifying the speech signal to increase its intelligibility under the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Haoyu Li , Junichi Yamagishi

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan

Popular neural network-based speech enhancement systems operate on the magnitude spectrogram and ignore the phase mismatch between the noisy and clean speech signals. Conditional generative adversarial networks (cGANs) show promise in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-21 Deepak Baby

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

Speech enhancement at extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) condition is a very challenging problem and rarely investigated in previous works. This paper proposes a robust speech enhancement approach (UNetGAN) based on U-Net and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su , Zhiyu Wang , Hui Zhang , Batushiren

Generative adversarial network (GAN) still exists some problems in dealing with speech enhancement (SE) task. Some GAN-based systems adopt the same structure from Pixel-to-Pixel directly without special optimization. The importance of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Huixiang Huang , Renjie Wu , Jingbiao Huang , Jucai Lin , Jun Yin

Deep generative models for Speech Enhancement (SE) received increasing attention in recent years. The most prominent example are Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), while normalizing flows (NF) received less attention despite their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Martin Strauss , Matteo Torcoli , Bernd Edler

We investigate the effectiveness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, in the context of improving noise robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Prior work demonstrates that GANs can effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Chris Donahue , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar

The prevailing method for neural speech enhancement predominantly utilizes fully-supervised deep learning with simulated pairs of far-field noisy-reverberant speech and clean speech. Nonetheless, these models frequently demonstrate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Tong Lei , Qinwen Hu , Ziyao Lin , Andong Li , Rilin Chen , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jing Lu

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are of vital importance nowadays in commonplace tasks such as speech-to-text processing and language translation. This created the need for an ASR system that can operate in realistic crowded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Sherif Abdulatif , Karim Armanious , Karim Guirguis , Jayasankar T. Sajeev , Bin Yang

Enhancing speech quality under adverse SNR conditions remains a significant challenge for discriminative deep neural network (DNN)-based approaches. In this work, we propose DisCoGAN, which is a time-frequency-domain generative adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-18 Shrishti Saha Shetu , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Andreas Brendel

Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-based model requires multiple numbers of function…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Jiahe Wang , Hongyu Wang , Wei Wang , Lei Yang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Lufen Tan , Yanmin Qian

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

Applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) on real systems suffers from slow data sampling. We propose an enhanced generative adversarial network (EGAN) to initialize an RL agent in order to achieve faster learning. The EGAN utilizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Vincent Huang , Tobias Ley , Martha Vlachou-Konchylaki , Wenfeng Hu

In this work, we further develop the conformer-based metric generative adversarial network (CMGAN) model for speech enhancement (SE) in the time-frequency (TF) domain. This paper builds on our previous work but takes a more in-depth look by…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Sherif Abdulatif , Ruizhe Cao , Bin Yang
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