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In this work, we present a two-stage method for speaker extraction under reverberant and noisy conditions. Given a reference signal of the desired speaker, the clean, but the still reverberant, desired speaker is first extracted from the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

Background noise, interfering speech and room reverberation frequently distort target speech in real listening environments. In this study, we address joint speech separation and dereverberation, which aims to separate target speech from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Ke Tan , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

The estimation of reverberation time from real-world signals plays a central role in a wide range of applications. In many scenarios, acoustic conditions change over time which in turn requires the estimate to be updated continuously.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Philipp Götz , Cagdas Tuna , Andreas Walther , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We present VoiceRestore, a novel approach to restoring the quality of speech recordings using flow-matching Transformers trained in a self-supervised manner on synthetic data. Our method tackles a wide range of degradations frequently found…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Stanislav Kirdey

Both reverberation and additive noises degrade the speech quality and intelligibility. Weighted prediction error (WPE) method performs well on the dereverberation but with limitations. First, WPE doesn't consider the influence of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Hui Zhang , Guanglai Gao

Due to the absence of clean reference signals and spatial cues, monaural unsupervised speech dereverberation is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem. To realize it, we propose augmented reverberant-target training (ARTT), which consists…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Siqi Song , Fulin Wu , Zhong-Qiu Wang

We present a novel approach to improve the performance of learning-based speech dereverberation using accurate synthetic datasets. Our approach is designed to recover the reverb-free signal from a reverberant speech signal. We show that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Rohith Aralikatti , Zhenyu Tang , Dinesh Manocha

Despite successful applications of end-to-end approaches in multi-channel speech recognition, the performance still degrades severely when the speech is corrupted by reverberation. In this paper, we integrate the dereverberation module into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Wangyou Zhang , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Speech dereverberation aims to alleviate the detrimental effects of late-reverberant components. While the weighted prediction error (WPE) method has shown superior performance in dereverberation, there is still room for further improvement…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Ziye Yang , Wenxing Yang , Kai Xie , Jie Chen

Reverberation not only degrades the quality of speech for human perception, but also severely impacts the accuracy of automatic speech recognition. Prior work attempts to remove reverberation based on the audio modality only. Our idea is to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Changan Chen , Wei Sun , David Harwath , Kristen Grauman

In real life, room effect, also known as room reverberation, and the present background noise degrade the quality of speech. Recently, deep learning-based speech enhancement approaches have shown a lot of promise and surpassed traditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Jean-Marc Valin , Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Most recent advances in audio dereverberation focus almost exclusively on speech, leaving percussive and drum signals largely unexplored despite their importance in music production. Percussive dereverberation poses distinct challenges due…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dimos Makris , András Barják , Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas

Reverberation conveys critical acoustic cues about the environment, supporting spatial awareness and immersion. For auditory augmented reality (AAR) systems, generating perceptually plausible reverberation in real time remains a key…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Philipp Götz , Gloria Dal Santo , Sebastian J. Schlecht , Vesa Välimäki , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Speaker adaptation is important to build robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. In this work, we investigate various methods for speaker adaptive training (SAT) based on feature-space approaches for a conformer-based acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Mohammad Zeineldeen , Jingjing Xu , Christoph Lüscher , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Recently, the end-to-end approach has been successfully applied to multi-speaker speech separation and recognition in both single-channel and multichannel conditions. However, severe performance degradation is still observed in the…

Adaptive algorithm based on multi-channel linear prediction is an effective dereverberation method balancing well between the attenuation of the long-term reverberation and the dereverberated speech quality. However, the abrupt change of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-24 Teng Xiang , Jing Lu , Kai Chen

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based methods were proposed for extracting a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from speech signals. Although the deep learning-based embedding extraction methods have shown good performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Woo Hyun Kang , Jahangir Alam , Abderrahim Fathan

With recent research advancements, deep learning models are becoming attractive and powerful choices for speech enhancement in real-time applications. While state-of-the-art models can achieve outstanding results in terms of speech quality…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Hannes Gamper , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Ivan Tashev

With the popularity of deep neural network, speech synthesis task has achieved significant improvements based on the end-to-end encoder-decoder framework in the recent days. More and more applications relying on speech synthesis technology…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dongyang Dai , Li Chen , Yuping Wang , Mu Wang , Rui Xia , Xuchen Song , Zhiyong Wu , Yuxuan Wang