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Generative models have shown remarkable performance in speech enhancement (SE), achieving superior perceptual quality over traditional discriminative approaches. However, existing generative SE approaches often overlook the risk of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Xiaobin Rong , Qinwen Hu , Mansur Yesilbursa , Kamil Wojcicki , Jing Lu

The increasingly stringent requirement on quality-of-experience in 5G/B5G communication systems has led to the emerging neural speech enhancement techniques, which however have been developed in isolation from the existing expert-rule based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yang Liu , Na Tang , Xiaoli Chu , Yang Yang , Jun Wang

Speech pre-processing techniques such as denoising, de-reverberation, and separation, are commonly employed as front-ends for various downstream speech processing tasks. However, these methods can sometimes be inadequate, resulting in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Sirui Li , Shuai Wang , Zhijun Liu , Zhongjie Jiang , Yannan Wang , Haizhou Li

Target speaker information can be utilized in speech enhancement (SE) models to more effectively extract the desired speech. Previous works introduce the speaker embedding into speech enhancement models by means of concatenation or affine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Xiaohuai Le , Li Chen , Chao He , Yiqing Guo , Cheng Chen , Xianjun Xia , Jing Lu

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

This paper proposes a dual-stage, low complexity, and reconfigurable technique to enhance the speech contaminated by various types of noise sources. Driven by input data and audio contents, the proposed dual-stage speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Jun Yang , Nico Brailovsky

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

This paper studies the Speech Enhancement based on Deep Neural Networks. The proposed architecture gradually follows the signal transformation during enhancement by means of a visualization probe at each network block. Alongside the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 Jorge Llombart , Dayana Ribas , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

This paper presents a complete hardware and software pipeline for real-time speech enhancement in noisy and reverberant conditions. The device consists of a microphone array and a camera mounted on eyeglasses, connected to an embedded…

The goal of speech enhancement (SE) is to eliminate the background interference from the noisy speech signal. Generative models such as diffusion models (DM) have been applied to the task of SE because of better generalization in unseen…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wen Wang , Dongchao Yang , Qichen Ye , Bowen Cao , Yuexian Zou

With advances in deep learning, neural network based speech enhancement (SE) has developed rapidly in the last decade. Meanwhile, the self-supervised pre-trained model and vector quantization (VQ) have achieved excellent performance on many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Xiao-Ying Zhao , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang

Noisy situations cause huge problems for suffers of hearing loss as hearing aids often make the signal more audible but do not always restore the intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Ahsan Adeel , Amir Hussain

In this paper, we propose a novel speech enhancement (SE) method by exploiting the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). This new method reduces the amount of fast time-varying portion, viz. the DWT-wise detail component, in the spectrogram of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-09 Shih-kuang Lee , Syu-Siang Wang , Yu Tsao , Jeih-weih Hung

In this paper, we propose long short term memory speech enhancement network (LSTMSE-Net), an audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) method. This innovative method leverages the complementary nature of visual and audio information to boost…

The last decade has witnessed significant advancements in deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE). However, most existing SE research has limitations on the coverage of SE sub-tasks, data diversity and amount, and evaluation metrics. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Wangyou Zhang , Robin Scheibler , Kohei Saijo , Samuele Cornell , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Jan Pirklbauer , Marvin Sach , Shinji Watanabe , Tim Fingscheidt , Yanmin Qian

Previous studies have proven that integrating video signals, as a complementary modality, can facilitate improved performance for speech enhancement (SE). However, video clips usually contain large amounts of data and pose a high cost in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Cheng Yu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Syu-Siang Wang , Szu-Wei Fu , Yu Tsao , Jeih-weih Hung

Previous studies have confirmed that by augmenting acoustic features with the place/manner of articulatory features, the speech enhancement (SE) process can be guided to consider the broad phonetic properties of the input speech when…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yen-Ju Lu , Chia-Yu Chang , Cheng Yu , Ching-Feng Liu , Jeih-weih Hung , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Tsao

Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Szu-Wei Fu , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Most text-to-speech (TTS) methods use high-quality speech corpora recorded in a well-designed environment, incurring a high cost for data collection. To solve this problem, existing noise-robust TTS methods are intended to use noisy speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Takaaki Saeki , Kentaro Tachibana , Ryuichi Yamamoto

While the deep learning techniques promote the rapid development of the speech enhancement (SE) community, most schemes only pursue the performance in a black-box manner and lack adequate model interpretability. Inspired by Taylor's…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Andong Li , Shan You , Guochen Yu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li