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Although neural text-to-speech (TTS) models have attracted a lot of attention and succeeded in generating human-like speech, there is still room for improvements to its naturalness and architectural efficiency. In this work, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Myeonghun Jeong , Hyeongju Kim , Sung Jun Cheon , Byoung Jin Choi , Nam Soo Kim

While deep learning based speech enhancement systems have made rapid progress in improving the quality of speech signals, they can still produce outputs that contain artifacts and can sound unnatural. We propose a novel approach to speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Muqiao Yang , Joseph Konan , David Bick , Anurag Kumar , Shinji Watanabe , Bhiksha Raj

Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-based model requires multiple numbers of function…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Jiahe Wang , Hongyu Wang , Wei Wang , Lei Yang , Chenda Li , Wangyou Zhang , Lufen Tan , Yanmin Qian

Recent autoregressive transformer-based speech enhancement (SE) methods have shown promising results by leveraging advanced semantic understanding and contextual modeling of speech. However, these approaches often rely on complex…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Frédéric Berdoz , Antonis Asonitis , Roger Wattenhofer

Electromyography-to-Speech (ETS) conversion has demonstrated its potential for silent speech interfaces by generating audible speech from Electromyography (EMG) signals during silent articulations. ETS models usually consist of an EMG…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhao Ren , Kevin Scheck , Qinhan Hou , Stefano van Gogh , Michael Wand , Tanja Schultz

Universal Speech Enhancement (USE) aims to restore speech quality under diverse degradation conditions while preserving signal fidelity. Despite recent progress, key challenges in training target selection, the distortion--perception…

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

Speech deepfake detection is a well-established research field with different models, datasets, and training strategies. However, the lack of standardized implementations and evaluation protocols limits reproducibility, benchmarking, and…

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Scaling text-to-speech (TTS) with autoregressive language model (LM) to large-scale datasets by quantizing waveform into discrete speech tokens is making great progress to capture the diversity and expressiveness in human speech, but the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Chong Zhang , Yanqing Liu , Yang Zheng , Sheng Zhao

The diffusion models including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and score-based generative models have demonstrated excellent performance in speech synthesis tasks. However, its effectiveness comes at the cost of numerous…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wenhao Guan , Qi Su , Haodong Zhou , Shiyu Miao , Xingjia Xie , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Talking head synthesis is a promising approach for the video production industry. Recently, a lot of effort has been devoted in this research area to improve the generation quality or enhance the model generalization. However, there are few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Shuai Shen , Wenliang Zhao , Zibin Meng , Wanhua Li , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We propose a speech enhancement system that combines speaker-agnostic speech restoration with voice conversion (VC) to obtain a studio-level quality speech signal. While voice conversion models are typically used to change speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Diffusion models proved to be powerful models for generative speech enhancement. In recent SGMSE+ approaches, training involves a stochastic differential equation for the diffusion process, adding both Gaussian and environmental noise to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

In this paper, we address the challenge of speech enhancement in real-world recordings, which often contain various forms of distortion, such as background noise, reverberation, and microphone artifacts. We revisit the use of Generative…

The rapid advancement of generative models has enabled highly realistic audio deepfakes, yet current detectors suffer from a critical bias problem, leading to poor generalization across unseen datasets. This paper proposes Artifact-Focused…

Diffusion probabilistic models have been recently used in a variety of tasks, including speech enhancement and synthesis. As a generative approach, diffusion models have been shown to be especially suitable for imputation problems, where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Tal Peer , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

While the diffusion transformer (DiT) has become a focal point of interest in recent years, its application in low-light image enhancement remains a blank area for exploration. Current methods recover the details from low-light images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Longtao Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu , Xun Yang

Real-world text image super-resolution aims to restore overall visual quality and text legibility in images suffering from diverse degradations and text distortions. However, the scarcity of text image data in existing datasets results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haodong He , Xin Zhan , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as the new trend of generative diffusion models on image generation. In view of extremely slow convergence in typical DiT, recent breakthroughs have been driven by mask strategy that significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zhu , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Zhenglong Sun , Tao Mei , Chang Wen Chen