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Although today's speech communication systems support various bandwidths from narrowband to super-wideband and beyond, state-of-the art DNN methods for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) are lacking modularity and bandwidth scalability. Our…

This paper proposes a joint acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) and speech dereverberation (DR) algorithm in the short-time Fourier transform domain. The reverberant microphone signals are described using an auto-regressive (AR) model. The AR…

Sound Event Detection (SED) detects regions of sound events, while Speaker Diarization (SD) segments speech conversations attributed to individual speakers. In SED, all speaker segments are classified as a single speech event, while in SD,…

The ICASSP 2022 Acoustic Echo Cancellation Challenge is intended to stimulate research in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), which is an important area of speech enhancement and still a top issue in audio communication. This is the third AEC…

The task of speaker change detection (SCD), which detects points where speakers change in an input, is essential for several applications. Several studies solved the SCD task using audio inputs only and have shown limited performance.…

We introduce a synergistic approach to double-talk robust acoustic echo cancellation combining adaptive Kalman filtering with a deep neural network-based postfilter. The proposed algorithm overcomes the well-known limitations of Kalman…

Audio Deepfake Detection (ADD) aims to detect spoof speech from bonafide speech. Most prior studies assume that stronger correlations within or across acoustic and emotional features imply authenticity, and thus focus on enhancing or…

Machine learning algorithms, when trained on audio recordings from a limited set of devices, may not generalize well to samples recorded using other devices with different frequency responses. In this work, a relatively straightforward…

Acoustic echo cancellation with stereo signals is generally an under-determined problem because of the high coherence between the left and right channels. In this paper, we present a novel method of significantly reducing inter-channel…

Frequently misclassified pairs of classes that share many common acoustic properties exist in acoustic scene classification (ASC). To distinguish such pairs of classes, trivial details scattered throughout the data could be vital clues.…

This paper presents a joint source separation algorithm that simultaneously reduces acoustic echo, reverberation and interfering sources. Target speeches are separated from the mixture by maximizing independence with respect to the other…

Deep learning based techniques have been popularly adopted in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). Utilization of speaker representation has extended the frontier of AEC, thus attracting many researchers' interest in personalized acoustic echo…

Acoustic scene classification (ASC) is a crucial research problem in computational auditory scene analysis, and it aims to recognize the unique acoustic characteristics of an environment. One of the challenges of the ASC task is the domain…

In this paper, we present a deep learning framework applied for Acoustic Scene Classification (ASC), the task of classifying scene contexts from environmental input sounds. An ASC system generally comprises of two main steps, referred to as…

Echo and noise suppression is an integral part of a full-duplex communication system. Many recent acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) systems rely on a separate adaptive filtering module for linear echo suppression and a neural module for…

In this paper, we propose a novel normalized subband adaptive filter algorithm suited for sparse scenarios, which combines the proportionate and sparsity-aware mechanisms. The proposed algorithm is derived based on the proximal…

Inspite the emerging importance of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), the state-of-the-art accuracy is quite low and needs improvement to make commercial applications of SER viable. A key underlying reason for the low accuracy is the…

We consider the problem of recognizing speech utterances spoken to a device which is generating a known sound waveform; for example, recognizing queries issued to a digital assistant which is generating responses to previous user inputs.…

Acoustic side-channel attacks (ASCA) on keyboards pose a significant security risk, as keystrokes can be inferred from typing acoustics, revealing sensitive information. Prior ASCA studies are limited by small-scale datasets with restricted…

One of the main difficulties in echo cancellation is the fact that the learning rate needs to vary according to conditions such as double-talk and echo path change. Several methods have been proposed to vary the learning. In this paper we…