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Multi-channel speech enhancement utilizes spatial information from multiple microphones to extract the target speech. However, most existing methods do not explicitly model spatial cues, instead relying on implicit learning from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiahui Pan , Shulin He , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement is a fundamental challenge in signal processing, particularly when robustness is required across diverse acoustic conditions and microphone setups. Deep learning methods have been successful for speech enhancement, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yuval Bar Ilan , Boaz Rafaely , Vladimir Tourbabin

Speech enhancement promises higher efficiency in ad-hoc microphone arrays than in constrained microphone arrays thanks to the wide spatial coverage of the devices in the acoustic scene. However, speech enhancement in ad-hoc microphone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Slim Essid , Irina Illina

Speech enhancement performance degrades significantly in noisy environments, limiting the deployment of speech-controlled technologies in industrial settings, such as manufacturing plants. Existing speech enhancement solutions primarly rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Zachary Turcotte , François Grondin

This paper proposes a model that integrates sub-band processing and deep filtering to fully exploit information from the target time-frequency (TF) bin and its surrounding TF bins for single-channel speech enhancement. The sub-band module…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenghui Lu , Hukai Huang , Jinanglong Yao , Kaidi Wang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

In this contribution, we present a novel online approach to multichannel speech enhancement. The proposed method estimates the enhanced signal through a filter-and-sum framework. More specifically, complex-valued masks are estimated by a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Mhd Modar Halimeh , Walter Kellermann

Multi-channel speech enhancement aims to recover clean speech from noisy multi-channel recordings. Most deep learning methods employ discriminative training, which can lead to non-linear distortions from regression-based objectives,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Zhongweiyang Xu , Ashutosh Pandey , Juan Azcarreta , Zhaoheng Ni , Sanjeel Parekh , Buye Xu

Personalized speech enhancement has been a field of active research for suppression of speechlike interferers such as competing speakers or TV dialogues. Compared with single channel approaches, multichannel PSE systems can be more…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Yicheng Hsu , Yonghan Lee , Mingsian R. Bai

With the recent surge of video conferencing tools usage, providing high-quality speech signals and accurate captions have become essential to conduct day-to-day business or connect with friends and families. Single-channel personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Hassan Taherian , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

Speech separation with several speakers is a challenging task because of the non-stationarity of the speech and the strong signal similarity between interferent sources. Current state-of-the-art solutions can separate well the different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches have significantly improved the performance of single-channel speech enhancement. However, due to the limitation of training data and computational complexity, real-time enhancement of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang , Yukun Qian , Heng Li , Mingjiang Wang

This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…

Although mask-based beamforming is a powerful speech enhancement approach, it often requires manual parameter tuning to handle moving speakers. Recently, this approach was augmented with an attention-based spatial covariance matrix…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Marvin Tammen , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

Speech enhancement in ad-hoc microphone arrays is often hindered by the asynchronization of the devices composing the microphone array. Asynchronization comes from sampling time offset and sampling rate offset which inevitably occur when…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Slim Essid , Irina Illina

We present a novel model designed for resource-efficient multichannel speech enhancement in the time domain, with a focus on low latency, lightweight, and low computational requirements. The proposed model incorporates explicit spatial and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

The majority of multichannel speech enhancement algorithms are two-step procedures that first apply a linear spatial filter, a so-called beamformer, and combine it with a single-channel approach for postprocessing. However, the serial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann