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Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models achieve promising results compared with unconditional speech enhancement models due to their ability to remove interfering speech in addition to background noise. Unlike unconditional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Hassan Taherian , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka

PEGs are a formal grammar foundation for describing syntax, and are not hard to generate parsers with a plain recursive decent parsing. However, the large amount of C-stack consumption in the recursive parsing is not acceptable especially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Shun Honda , Kimio Kuramitsu

Despite the recent significant advances witnessed in end-to-end (E2E) ASR system for code-switching, hunger for audio-text paired data limits the further improvement of the models' performance. In this paper, we propose a decoupled…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Shuai Zhang , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengkun Tian , Ye Bai , Jianhua Tao , Zhengqi wen

This paper aims to achieve single-channel target speech extraction (TSE) in enclosures by solely utilizing distance information. This is the first work that utilizes only distance cues without using speaker physiological information for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Runwu Shi , Benjamin Yen , Kazuhiro Nakadai

In this study, we propose a simple and efficient Non-Autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) system based on diffusion, named SimpleSpeech. Its simpleness shows in three aspects: (1) It can be trained on the speech-only dataset, without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Dongchao Yang , Dingdong Wang , Haohan Guo , Xueyuan Chen , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Speech enhancement and separation have been a long-standing problem, especially with the recent advances using a single microphone. Although microphones perform well in constrained settings, their performance for speech separation decreases…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Muhammed Zahid Ozturk , Chenshu Wu , Beibei Wang , Min Wu , K. J. Ray Liu

Transformer has obtained promising results on cognitive speech signal processing field, which is of interest in various applications ranging from emotion to neurocognitive disorder analysis. However, most works treat speech signal as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jianxin Pang , Lan Du

Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Daning Zhang , Ying Wei

Recurrent transducer models have emerged as a promising solution for speech recognition on the current and next generation smart devices. The transducer models provide competitive accuracy within a reasonable memory footprint alleviating…

Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Jingru Lin , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani

This paper summarizes several follow-up contributions for improving our submitted NWPU speaker-dependent system for CHiME-5 challenge, which aims to solve the problem of multi-channel, highly-overlapped conversational speech recognition in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-09 Jian Wu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lian-Wu Chen , Meng Yu , Lei Xie , Dong Yu

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

We present a new method for separating a mixed audio sequence, in which multiple voices speak simultaneously. The new method employs gated neural networks that are trained to separate the voices at multiple processing steps, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi , Lior Wolf

Speech separation seeks to separate individual speech signals from a speech mixture. Typically, most separation models are trained on synthetic data due to the unavailability of target reference in real-world cocktail party scenarios. As a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Xinke Li , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Recent advances in the design of neural network architectures, in particular those specialized in modeling sequences, have provided significant improvements in speech separation performance. In this work, we propose to use a bio-inspired…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Xiaolin Hu , Kai Li , Weiyi Zhang , Yi Luo , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Timo Gerkmann

Existing multi-channel continuous speech separation (CSS) models are heavily dependent on supervised data - either simulated data which causes data mismatch between the training and real-data testing, or the real transcribed overlapping…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Naoyuki Kanda , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka

Classroom environments are particularly challenging for children with hearing impairments, where background noise, multiple talkers, and reverberation degrade speech perception. These difficulties are greater for children than adults, yet…

Continuous speech separation (CSS) is a recently proposed framework which aims at separating each speaker from an input mixture signal in a streaming fashion. Hereafter we perform an evaluation study on practical design considerations for a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Giovanni Morrone , Samuele Cornell , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models can improve the audio quality of teleconferencing systems by adapting to the characteristics of a speaker's voice. However, most existing methods require a separate speaker embedding model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tanel Pärnamaa , Ando Saabas