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The human brain contextually exploits heterogeneous sensory information to efficiently perform cognitive tasks including vision and hearing. For example, during the cocktail party situation, the human auditory cortex contextually integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Amir Hussain

Noise-robust speech recognition systems require large amounts of training data including noisy speech data and corresponding transcripts to achieve state-of-the-art performances in face of various practical environments. However, such…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chen Chen , Nana Hou , Yuchen Hu , Shashank Shirol , Eng Siong Chng

With recent advances of diffusion model, generative speech enhancement (SE) has attracted a surge of research interest due to its great potential for unseen testing noises. However, existing efforts mainly focus on inherent properties of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-05 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Ruizhe Li , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) technology has become commonplace in virtual assistants. However, its performance suffers when there is a mismatch between the train and test domains. Mixed bandwidth training, i.e., pooling training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Saurabh Kataria , Jesús Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velázquez , Piotr Żelasko , Najim Dehak

One of the frontier issues that severely hamper the development of automatic snore sound classification (ASSC) associates to the lack of sufficient supervised training data. To cope with this problem, we propose a novel data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Zixing Zhang , Jing Han , Kun Qian , Christoph Janott , Yanan Guo , Bjoern Schuller

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have produced significantly improved results in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. They are difficult to train, however. In this work, we introduce several improvements to the GAN training…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye , Kazuhito Koishida

Deep learning-based semantic segmentation methods have an intrinsic limitation that training a model requires a large amount of data with pixel-level annotations. To address this challenging issue, many researchers give attention to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jaehoon Choi , Taekyung Kim , Changick Kim

In real-world scenarios, speech signals are inevitably corrupted by various types of interference, making speech enhancement (SE) a critical task for robust speech processing. However, most existing SE methods only handle a limited range of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

In realistic environments, speech is usually interfered by various noise and reverberation, which dramatically degrades the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To alleviate this issue, the commonest way is to use a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Dengfeng Ke , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu1

The performance of speech processing models trained on clean speech drops significantly in noisy conditions. Training with noisy datasets alleviates the problem, but procuring such datasets is not always feasible. Noisy speech simulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Leander Melroy Maben , Zixun Guo , Chen Chen , Utkarsh Chudiwal , Chng Eng Siong

Recent advancement in Generative Adversarial Networks in speech synthesis domain[3],[2] have shown, that it's possible to train GANs [8] in a reliable manner for high quality coherent waveform generation from mel-spectograms. We propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Luka Chkhetiani , Levan Bejanidze

Target speech extraction (TSE) focuses on extracting the speech of a specific target speaker from a mixture of signals. Existing TSE models typically utilize static embeddings as conditions for extracting the target speaker's voice.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yiwen Wang , Zeyu Yuan , Xihong Wu

Automatic recognition of disordered speech remains a highly challenging task to date. The underlying neuro-motor conditions, often compounded with co-occurring physical disabilities, lead to the difficulty in collecting large quantities of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zengrui Jin , Xurong Xie , Mengzhe Geng , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Xunying Liu

Existing deep learning based speech enhancement mainly employ a data-driven approach, which leverage large amounts of data with a variety of noise types to achieve noise removal from noisy signal. However, the high dependence on the data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Huaying Xue , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Time-domain single-channel speech enhancement (SE) still remains challenging to extract the target speaker without any prior information on multi-talker conditions. It has been shown via auditory attention decoding that the brain activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Jie Zhang , Qing-Tian Xu , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Speech contains rich information on the emotions of humans, and Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been an important topic in the area of human-computer interaction. The robustness of SER models is crucial, particularly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Yi Chang , Zhao Ren , Zixing Zhang , Xin Jing , Kun Qian , Xi Shao , Bin Hu , Tanja Schultz , Björn W. Schuller

Speech Enhancement (SE) is essential for improving productivity in remote collaborative environments. Although deep learning models are highly effective at SE, their computational demands make them impractical for embedded systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Riccardo Miccini , Clement Laroche , Tobias Piechowiak , Luca Pezzarossa

Speech distortions are a long-standing problem that degrades the performance of supervisely trained speech processing models. It is high time that we enhance the robustness of speech processing models to obtain good performance when…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kuan Po Huang , Yu-Kuan Fu , Yu Zhang , Hung-yi Lee

The current trend in automatic speech recognition is to leverage large amounts of labeled data to train supervised neural network models. Unfortunately, obtaining data for a wide range of domains to train robust models can be costly.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Wei-Ning Hsu , Hao Tang , James Glass

Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Santiago Pascual , Antonio Bonafonte , Joan Serrà