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Audio-visual speech enhancement system is regarded to be one of promising solutions for isolating and enhancing speech of desired speaker. Conventional methods focus on predicting clean speech spectrum via a naive convolution neural network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Xinmeng Xu , Jianjun Hao

This paper proposes a generative speech enhancement model based on Schr\"odinger bridge (SB). The proposed model is employing a tractable SB to formulate a data-to-data process between the clean speech distribution and the observed noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Ante Jukić , Roman Korostik , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for difficult enhancement tasks such as the conditional and unconditional restoration of natural images and audio signals. In this work, we explore the possibility of leveraging a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Hao Yen , François G. Germain , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

In this paper, we propose a single-channel speech dereverberation system (DeReGAT) based on convolutional, bidirectional long short-term memory and deep feed-forward neural network (CBLDNN) with generative adversarial training (GAT). In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Chenxing Li , Tieqiang Wang , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

In this contribution, we present a novel online approach to multichannel speech enhancement. The proposed method estimates the enhanced signal through a filter-and-sum framework. More specifically, complex-valued masks are estimated by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Mhd Modar Halimeh , Walter Kellermann

The absence of large labeled datasets remains a significant challenge in many application areas of deep learning. Researchers and practitioners typically resort to transfer learning and data augmentation to alleviate this issue. We study…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Paul Primus , Gerhard Widmer

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

Speech modeling methods learn one embedding for a fixed segment of speech, typically in between 10-25 ms. The information present in speech can be divided into two categories: "what is being said" (content) and "how it is expressed" (other)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hemant Yadav , Sunayana Sitaram , Rajiv Ratn Shah

In this paper, we analyzed how audio-visual speech enhancement can help to perform the ASR task in a cocktail party scenario. Therefore we considered two simple end-to-end LSTM-based models that perform single-channel audio-visual speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Luca Pasa , Giovanni Morrone , Leonardo Badino

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of multi-channel multi-speaker overlapped speech remains one of the most challenging tasks to the speech community. In this paper, we look into this challenge by utilizing the location information of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Hand-crafted spatial features (e.g., inter-channel phase difference, IPD) play a fundamental role in recent deep learning based multi-channel speech separation (MCSS) methods. However, these manually designed spatial features are hard to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

While the spatial directivity of multichannel speech enhancement algorithms improves with the number of microphones, fitting large capture arrays into real-world edge devices is typically limited by physical constraints. To overcome this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Dongheon Lee , Ashutosh Pandey , Sanjeel Parekh , Daniel Wong , Jacob Donley , Buye Xu , Juan Azcarreta

Deep neural network based speech enhancement approaches aim to learn a noisy-to-clean transformation using a supervised learning paradigm. However, such a trained-well transformation is vulnerable to unseen noises that are not included in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Heqing Zou , Linhui Sun , Eng Siong Chng

Incremental improvements in accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks are usually achieved through use of deeper and more complex models trained on larger datasets. However, enlarging dataset and models increases the computation and storage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Mahdi Hajibabaei , Dengxin Dai

Subband-based approaches process subbands in parallel through the model with shared parameters to learn the commonality of local spectrums for noise reduction. In this way, they have achieved remarkable results with fewer parameters.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Zilin Wang , Jiuxin Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang , Helen Meng

Recent speech enhancement methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer have been demonstrated to efficaciously capture time-frequency (T-F) information on spectrogram. However, the correlation of each channels of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jizhen Li , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Rong Zhu

In this paper, we present an unsupervised single-channel method for joint blind dereverberation and room impulse response estimation, based on posterior sampling with diffusion models. We parameterize the reverberation operator using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Eloi Moliner , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann , Vesa Välimäki

The performance of traditional linear spatial filters for speech enhancement is constrained by the physical size and number of channels of microphone arrays. For instance, for large microphone distances and high frequencies, spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Alina Mannanova , Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

As the performance of single-channel speech separation systems has improved, there has been a desire to move to more challenging conditions than the clean, near-field speech that initial systems were developed on. When training deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Matthew Maciejewski , Jing Shi , Shinji Watanabe , Sanjeev Khudanpur