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In this work, we propose a full-band real-time speech enhancement system with GAN-based stochastic regeneration. Predictive models focus on estimating the mean of the target distribution, whereas generative models aim to learn the full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Sanberk Serbest , Tijana Stojkovic , Milos Cernak , Andrew Harper

Neural network based approaches to speech enhancement have shown to be particularly powerful, being able to leverage a data-driven approach to result in a significant performance gain versus other approaches. Such approaches are reliant on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-15 George Close , William Ravenscroft , Thomas Hain , Stefan Goetze

Recent transformer-based ASR models have achieved word-error rates (WER) below 4%, surpassing human annotator accuracy, yet they demand extensive server resources, contributing to significant carbon footprints. The traditional server-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Aditya Chakravarty

Single-channel speech enhancement algorithms are often used in resource-constrained embedded devices, where low latency and low complexity designs gain more importance. In recent years, researchers have proposed a wide variety of novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Nicolás Arrieta Larraza , Niels de Koeijer

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Noise robustness is critical when applying automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world scenarios. One solution involves the used of speech enhancement (SE) models as the front end of ASR. However, neural network-based (NN-based) SE…

In the field of human-computer interaction and psychological assessment, speech emotion recognition (SER) plays an important role in deciphering emotional states from speech signals. Despite advancements, challenges persist due to system…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Alaa Nfissi , Wassim Bouachir , Nizar Bouguila , Brian Mishara

Most deep learning-based models for speech enhancement have mainly focused on estimating the magnitude of spectrogram while reusing the phase from noisy speech for reconstruction. This is due to the difficulty of estimating the phase of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Jang-Hyun Kim , Jaesung Huh , Adrian Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Kyogu Lee

Despite the rapid progress in speech enhancement (SE) research, enhancing the quality of desired speech in environments with strong noise and interfering speakers remains challenging. In this paper, we extend the application of the recently…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Jianwei Yu , Yi Luo , Hangting Chen , Rongzhi Gu , Chao Weng

Speech signals in real-world environments are frequently affected by various distortions such as additive noise, reverberation, and bandwidth limitation, which may appear individually or in combination. Traditional speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Doyeop Kwak , Youngjoon Jang , Seongyu Kim , Joon Son Chung

Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang

Speech enhancement deep learning systems usually require large amounts of training data to operate in broad conditions or real applications. This makes the adaptability of those systems into new, low resource environments an important…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Santiago Pascual , Maruchan Park , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte , Kang-Hun Ahn

In this paper, we aim at improving the performance of synthesized speech in statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) based on a generative adversarial network (GAN). In particular, we propose a novel architecture combining the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Shan Yang , Lei Xie , Xiao Chen , Xiaoyan Lou , Xuan Zhu , Dongyan Huang , Haizhou Li

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have been improved in terms of speech intelligibility and perceptual quality greatly. Many methods focus on enhancing the amplitude spectrum while reconstructing speech using the mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Qinglong Li , Fei Gao , Haixin Guan , Kaichi Ma

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

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Integrating front-end speech enhancement (SE) models with self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models is effective for downstream tasks in noisy conditions. SE models are commonly fine-tuned using SSL representations with mean…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

Numerous voice conversion (VC) techniques have been proposed for the conversion of voices among different speakers. Although good quality of the converted speech can be observed when VC is applied in a clean environment, the quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Yun-Ju Chan , Chiang-Jen Peng , Syu-Siang Wang , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao , Tai-Shih Chi

Building a single universal speech enhancement (SE) system that can handle arbitrary input is a demanded but underexplored research topic. Towards this ultimate goal, one direction is to build a single model that handles diverse audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Jee-weon Jung , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Real-world audio recordings often contain multiple speakers and various degradations, which limit both the quantity and quality of speech data available for building state-of-the-art speech processing models. Although end-to-end approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kohei Asai , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari