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In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

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Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

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Diffusion probabilistic models have demonstrated an outstanding capability to model natural images and raw audio waveforms through a paired diffusion and reverse processes. The unique property of the reverse process (namely, eliminating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao , Shinji Watanabe

Diffusion models have recently been shown to be relevant for high-quality speech generation. Most work has been focused on generating spectrograms, and as such, they further require a subsequent model to convert the spectrogram to a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roi Benita , Michael Elad , Joseph Keshet

Deep generative models can generate high-fidelity audio conditioned on various types of representations (e.g., mel-spectrograms, Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC)). Recently, such models have been used to synthesize audio waveforms…

We explore unsupervised speech enhancement using diffusion models as expressive generative priors for clean speech. Existing approaches guide the reverse diffusion process using noisy speech through an approximate, noise-perturbed…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mostafa Sadeghi , Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction under multi-speaker noisy conditions remains relatively…

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Scene text editing is a challenging task that involves modifying or inserting specified texts in an image while maintaining its natural and realistic appearance. Most previous approaches to this task rely on style-transfer models that crop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiabao Ji , Guanhua Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Bairu Hou , Zhifei Zhang , Brian Price , Shiyu Chang

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

Diffusion model-based speech enhancement has received increased attention since it can generate very natural enhanced signals and generalizes well to unseen conditions. Diffusion models have been explored for several sub-tasks of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Naoyuki Kamo , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani

Recently, the application of diffusion probabilistic models has advanced speech enhancement through generative approaches. However, existing diffusion-based methods have focused on the generation process in high-dimensional waveform or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shengkui Zhao , Zexu Pan , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

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Modeling radio frequency (RF) signal propagation is essential for understanding the environment, as RF signals offer valuable insights beyond the capabilities of RGB cameras, which are limited by the visible-light spectrum, lens coverage,…

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Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

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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

Diffusion models have recently achieved impressive results in reconstructing images from noisy inputs, and similar ideas have been applied to speech enhancement by treating time-frequency representations as images. With the ubiquity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Renana Opochinsky , Sharon Gannot

Removing background noise from speech audio has been the subject of considerable effort, especially in recent years due to the rise of virtual communication and amateur recordings. Yet background noise is not the only unpleasant disturbance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons , R. Oguz Araz , Davide Scaini

In recent years, image generation has shown a great leap in performance, where diffusion models play a central role. Although generating high-quality images, such models are mainly conditioned on textual descriptions. This begs the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Guy Yariv , Itai Gat , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Idan Schwartz

Speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) aims to convert spoken input in one language to spoken output in another, typically focusing on either language translation or accent adaptation. However, effective cross-cultural communication requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Abhishek Mishra , Ritesh Sur Chowdhury , Vartul Bahuguna , Isha Pandey , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Although voice conversion (VC) systems have shown a remarkable ability to transfer voice style, existing methods still have an inaccurate pitch and low speaker adaptation quality. To address these challenges, we introduce Diff-HierVC, a…

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