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Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

A person tends to generate dynamic attention towards speech under complicated environments. Based on this phenomenon, we propose a framework combining dynamic attention and recursive learning together for monaural speech enhancement. Apart…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Cunhang Fan , Renhua Peng , Xiaodong Li

By "intelligently" fusing the complementary information across different views, multi-view learning is able to improve the performance of classification tasks. In this work, we extend the information bottleneck principle to a supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Qi Zhang , Shujian Yu , Jingmin Xin , Badong Chen

Deep learning algorithm are increasingly used for speech enhancement (SE). In supervised methods, global and local information is required for accurate spectral mapping. A key restriction is often poor capture of key contextual information.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Jianqiao Cui , Stefan Bleeck

The INTERSPEECH 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge is intended to promote collaborative research in real-time single-channel Speech Enhancement aimed to maximize the subjective (perceptual) quality of the enhanced speech. A typical…

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

Compensation for channel mismatch and noise interference is essential for robust automatic speech recognition. Enhanced speech has been introduced into the multi-condition training of acoustic models to improve their generalization ability.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Yuan Chen , Yao-Fei Cheng , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

When the parameters of Bayesian Short-time Spectral Amplitude (STSA) estimator for speech enhancement are selected based on the characteristics of the human auditory system, the gain function of the estimator becomes more flexible. Although…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Suman Samui

We present our experiments in training robust to noise an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) model using intensive data augmentation. We explore the efficacy of fine-tuning a pre-trained model to improve noise robustness, and we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Jagadeesh Balam , Jocelyn Huang , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Slyne Deng , Somshubra Majumdar , Boris Ginsburg

We present a neural analysis and synthesis (NANSY) framework that can manipulate voice, pitch, and speed of an arbitrary speech signal. Most of the previous works have focused on using information bottleneck to disentangle analysis features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Juheon Lee , Wansoo Kim , Jie Hwan Lee , Hoon Heo , Kyogu Lee

Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including ones based on…

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

In this study, we propose a modulation decoupling based single channel speech enhancement subspace framework, in which the spectrogram of noisy speech is decoupled as the product of a spectral envelop subspace and a spectral details…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Pengfei Sun , Jun Qin

Supervised learning based on a deep neural network recently has achieved substantial improvement on speech enhancement. Denoising networks learn mapping from noisy speech to clean one directly, or to a spectrum mask which is the ratio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jaeyoung Kim , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

The expectation to deploy a universal neural network for speech enhancement, with the aim of improving noise robustness across diverse speech processing tasks, faces challenges due to the existing lack of awareness within static speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Yanan Chen , Zihao Cui , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang

Speech enhancement (SE) performance is known to depend on noise characteristics and signal to noise ratio (SNR), yet intrinsic properties of the clean speech signal itself remain an underexplored factor. In this work, we systematically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Mingchi Hou , Ina Kodrasi

Information theoretic quantities play a central role in machine learning. The recent surge in the complexity of data and models has increased the demand for accurate estimation of these quantities. However, as the dimension grows the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Viktor Nilsson , Anirban Samaddar , Sandeep Madireddy , Pierre Nyquist

We present a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using end-to-end deep learning. Our architecture is significantly simpler than traditional speech systems, which rely on laboriously engineered processing pipelines; these…

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverage the generalization and robustness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Chong-Xin Gan , Peter Bell , Man-Wai Mak , Zhe Li , Zezhong Jin , Zilong Huang , Kong Aik Lee

Deep search agents have proven effective in enhancing LLMs by retrieving external knowledge during multi-step reasoning. However, existing methods often generate a single query for retrieval at each reasoning step, limiting information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jiabei Liu , Wenyu Mao , Junfei Tan , Chunxu Shen , Lingling Yi , Jiancan Wu , Xiang Wang