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In this paper, we propose a data-driven visual rhythm prediction method, which overcomes the previous works' deficiency that predictions are made primarily by human-crafted hard rules. In our approach, we first extract features including…

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Relative impulse responses between microphones are usually long and dense due to the reverberant acoustic environment. Estimating them from short and noisy recordings poses a long-standing challenge of audio signal processing. In this paper…

An accurate objective speech intelligibility prediction algorithms is of great interest for many applications such as speech enhancement for hearing aids. Most algorithms measures the signal-to-noise ratios or correlations between the…

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