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Generative models have excelled in audio tasks using approaches such as language models, diffusion, and flow matching. However, existing generative approaches for speech enhancement (SE) face notable challenges: language model-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Xinfa Zhu , Yike Zhu , Mingshuai Liu , Jun Chen , Longshuai Xiao , Chao Weng , Lei Xie

Diffusion probabilistic models have shown impressive performance for speech enhancement, but they typically require 25 to 60 function evaluations in the inference phase, resulting in heavy computational complexity. Recently, a fine-tuning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Seonggyu Lee , Sein Cheong , Sangwook Han , Jong Won Shin

This paper proposes a new unsupervised audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) approach that combines a diffusion-based audio-visual speech generative model with a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model. First, the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

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

This paper introduces an audio-visual speech enhancement system that leverages score-based generative models, also known as diffusion models, conditioned on visual information. In particular, we exploit audio-visual embeddings obtained from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Julius Richter , Simone Frintrop , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement systems are typically trained using pairs of clean and noisy speech. In audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE), there is not as much ground-truth clean data available; most audio-visual datasets are collected in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ju-Chieh Chou , Chung-Ming Chien , Karen Livescu

Speech enhancement (SE) based on diffusion probabilistic models has exhibited impressive performance, while requiring a relatively high number of function evaluations (NFE). Recently, SE based on flow matching has been proposed, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Seonggyu Lee , Sein Cheong , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-based model requires multiple numbers of function…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Jiahe Wang , Hongyu Wang , Wei Wang , Lei Yang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Lufen Tan , Yanmin Qian

Diffusion-based generative models have achieved state-of-the-art performance for perceptual quality in speech enhancement (SE). However, their iterative nature requires numerous Neural Function Evaluations (NFEs), posing a challenge for…

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

Flow matching offers a robust and stable approach to training diffusion models. However, directly applying flow matching to neural vocoders can result in subpar audio quality. In this work, we present WaveFM, a reparameterized flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Tianze Luo , Xingchen Miao , Wenbo Duan

Audio super-resolution is challenging owing to its ill-posed nature. Recently, the application of diffusion models in audio super-resolution has shown promising results in alleviating this challenge. However, diffusion-based models have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jun-Hak Yun , Seung-Bin Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

Image enhancement holds extensive applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and limitations of imaging devices. Conventional methods are often constrained by their tailored models, resulting in diminished robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixuan Zhu , Wenliang Zhao , Ao Li , Yansong Tang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech in noisy environments. Recent studies have shown that incorporating visual cues in audio signal processing can enhance SE performance. Given that human speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meng-Ping Lin , Jen-Cheng Hou , Chia-Wei Chen , Shao-Yi Chien , Jun-Cheng Chen , Xugang Lu , Yu Tsao

Audio Super-Resolution is a set of techniques aimed at high-quality estimation of the given signal as if it would be sampled with higher sample rate. Among suggested methods there are diffusion and flow models (which are considered slower),…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Nikita Kuznetsov , Maksim Kaledin

Speech enhancement(SE) aims to recover clean speech from noisy recordings. Although generative approaches such as score matching and Schrodinger bridge have shown strong effectiveness, they are often computationally expensive. Flow matching…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Liusha Yang , Ziru Ge , Gui Zhang , Junan Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

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…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement is designed to enhance the intelligibility and quality of speech across diverse noise conditions. Recently, diffusion model has gained lots of attention in speech enhancement area, achieving competitive results. Current…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chengzhong Wang , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

Diffusion models can learn rich representations during data generation, showing potential for Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), but they face a trade-off between generative quality and discriminative performance. Their iterative sampling also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Kosuke Ukita , Tsuyoshi Okita

Existing dominant methods for audio generation include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion-based methods like Flow Matching. GANs suffer from slow convergence during training, while diffusion methods require multi-step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Zengwei Yao , Wei Kang , Han Zhu , Liyong Guo , Lingxuan Ye , Fangjun Kuang , Weiji Zhuang , Zhaoqing Li , Zhifeng Han , Long Lin , Daniel Povey
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