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Speech enhancement methods based on deep learning have surpassed traditional methods. While many of these new approaches are operating on the wideband (16kHz) sample rate, a new fullband (48kHz) speech enhancement system is proposed in this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Xu Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Xiguang Zheng , Xinlei Ren , Chen Zhang , Liang Guo , Bing Yu

Due to the high computational complexity to model more frequency bands, it is still intractable to conduct real-time full-band speech enhancement based on deep neural networks. Recent studies typically utilize the compressed perceptually…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Guochen Yu , Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Chengshi Zheng , Yutian Wang , Hui Wang

Dysarthric speech reconstruction (DSR) aims to convert dysarthric speech into comprehensible speech while maintaining the speaker's identity. Despite significant advancements, existing methods often struggle with low speech intelligibility…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xueyuan Chen , Dongchao Yang , Wenxuan Wu , Minglin Wu , Jing Xu , Xixin Wu , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has gained remarkable successes thanks to recent advances of deep learning, but it usually degrades significantly under real-world noisy conditions. Recent works introduce speech enhancement (SE) as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Speech enhancement techniques based on deep learning have brought significant improvement on speech quality and intelligibility. Nevertheless, a large gain in speech quality measured by objective metrics, such as perceptual evaluation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Bo Wu , Meng Yu , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Dong Yu

Effective speech representations for spoken language models must balance semantic relevance with acoustic fidelity for high-quality reconstruction. However, existing approaches struggle to achieve both simultaneously. To address this, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Amir Hussein , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Francois G. Germain , Jonathan Le Roux

Masked language models have revolutionized natural language processing systems in the past few years. A recently introduced generalization of masked language models called warped language models are trained to be more robust to the types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Mahdi Namazifar , John Malik , Li Erran Li , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani Tür

Deep neural network based full-band speech enhancement systems face challenges of high demand of computational resources and imbalanced frequency distribution. In this paper, a light-weight full-band model is proposed with two dedicated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Qinwen Hu , Zhongshu Hou , Xiaohuai Le , Jing Lu

Speech models are often trained on sensitive data in order to improve model performance, leading to potential privacy leakage. Our work considers noise masking attacks, introduced by Amid et al. 2022, which attack automatic speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Matthew Jagielski , Om Thakkar , Lun Wang

Recent advancements in supervised automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved remarkable performance, largely due to the growing availability of large transcribed speech corpora. However, most languages lack sufficient paired speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Junrui Ni , Liming Wang , Yang Zhang , Kaizhi Qian , Heting Gao , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Chang D. Yoo

Recently, deep neural network (DNN) based time-frequency (T-F) mask estimation has shown remarkable effectiveness for speech enhancement. Typically, a single T-F mask is first estimated based on DNN and then used to mask the spectrogram of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Liangchen Zhou , Wenbin Jiang , Jingyan Xu , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Speech enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of the speech signal by suppression of the background noise. However, excessive suppression may lead to speech distortion and speaker information loss, which degrades the performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yi Ma , Kong Aik Lee , Ville Hautamaki , Haizhou Li

Recently, masked video modeling has been widely explored and significantly improved the model's understanding ability of visual regions at a local level. However, existing methods usually adopt random masking and follow the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Han Fang , Zhifei Yang , Xianghao Zang , Chao Ban , Hao Sun

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved the performance of single-channel speech enhancement. However, due to the limitation of training data and computational complexity, real-time enhancement of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang , Yukun Qian , Heng Li , Mingjiang Wang

Recent techniques for speech deepfake detection often rely on pre-trained self-supervised models. These systems, initially developed for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), have proved their ability to offer a meaningful representation of…

For the difficulty and large computational complexity of modeling more frequency bands, full-band speech enhancement based on deep neural networks is still challenging. Previous studies usually adopt compressed full-band speech features in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Guochen Yu , Yuansheng Guan , Weixin Meng , Chengshi Zheng , Hui Wang

The objective of deep learning methods based on encoder-decoder architectures for music source separation is to approximate either ideal time-frequency masks or spectral representations of the target music source(s). The spectral…

This paper introduces an end-to-end neural speech restoration model, HD-DEMUCS, demonstrating efficacy across multiple distortion environments. Unlike conventional approaches that employ cascading frameworks to remove undesirable noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Doyeon Kim , Soo-Whan Chung , Hyewon Han , Youna Ji , Hong-Goo Kang

The incompleteness of speech inputs severely degrades the performance of all the related speech signal processing applications. Although many researches have been proposed to address this issue, they controlled the data missing conditions…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yu-Chen Lin , Tsun-An Hsieh , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Cheng Yu , Harinath Garudadri , Yu Tsao , Tei-Wei Kuo

Studies have shown that in noisy acoustic environments, providing binaural signals to the user of an assistive listening device may improve speech intelligibility and spatial awareness. This paper presents a binaural speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor