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Dysarthric speech poses significant challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to its high variability and reduced intelligibility. In this work we explore the use of diffusion models for dysarthric speech enhancement,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Dimme de Groot , Tanvina Patel , Devendra Kayande , Odette Scharenborg , Zhengjun Yue

Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even outperform their predictive counterparts for non-additive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

This paper proposes a new unsupervised audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) approach that combines a diffusion-based audio-visual speech generative model with a non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) noise model. First, the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Recently, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech enhancement tasks. However, these methods still encounter challenges, including the lack of structural information and poor performance in low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Siyi Wang , Siyi Liu , Andrew Harper , Paul Kendrick , Mathieu Salzmann , Milos Cernak

In this paper, we present a novel diffusion model-based monaural speech enhancement method. Our approach incorporates the separate estimation of speech spectra's magnitude and phase in two diffusion networks. Throughout the diffusion…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Plamen Angelov

Single-channel speech enhancement models face significant performance degradation in extremely noisy environments. While prior work has shown that complementary bone-conducted speech can guide enhancement, effective integration of this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sina Khanagha , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

Speech enhancement is designed to enhance the intelligibility and quality of speech across diverse noise conditions. Recently, diffusion model has gained lots of attention in speech enhancement area, achieving competitive results. Current…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chengzhong Wang , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

Diffusion models have recently set new benchmarks in Speech Enhancement (SE). However, most existing score-based models treat speech spectrograms merely as generic 2D images, applying uniform processing that ignores the intrinsic structural…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Kai Li , Shanping Yu , Puning Zhao , Jianping An

Building a single universal speech enhancement (SE) system that can handle arbitrary input is a demanded but underexplored research topic. Towards this ultimate goal, one direction is to build a single model that handles diverse audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Jee-weon Jung , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

In this paper, conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) are proposed to enhance the data transmission and reconstruction over wireless channels. The underlying mechanism of DDPM is to decompose the data generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

In real-world scenarios, speech signals are inevitably corrupted by various types of interference, making speech enhancement (SE) a critical task for robust speech processing. However, most existing SE methods only handle a limited range of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

Diffusion probabilistic models have shown impressive performance for speech enhancement, but they typically require 25 to 60 function evaluations in the inference phase, resulting in heavy computational complexity. Recently, a fine-tuning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Seonggyu Lee , Sein Cheong , Sangwook Han , Jong Won Shin

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

Diffusion-based generative models have had a high impact on the computer vision and speech processing communities these past years. Besides data generation tasks, they have also been employed for data restoration tasks like speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

In this study, we aim to explore the effect of pre-trained conditional generative speech models for the first time on dysarthric speech due to Parkinson's disease recorded in an ideal/non-noisy condition. Considering one category of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Joanna Reszka , Parvaneh Janbakhshi , Tilak Purohit , Sadegh Mohammadi

Speech enhancement (SE) is usually required as a front end to improve the speech quality in noisy environments, while the enhanced speech might not be optimal for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to speech distortion. On the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

We study a discrete denoising diffusion framework that integrates a sample-efficient estimator of single-site conditionals with round-robin noising and denoising dynamics for generative modeling over discrete state spaces. Rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Abhijith Jayakumar , Andrey Y. Lokhov

The conditional diffusion model (CDM) enhances the standard diffusion model by providing more control, improving the quality and relevance of the outputs, and making the model adaptable to a wider range of complex tasks. However, inaccurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Weifeng Xu , Xiang Zhu , Xiaoyong Li

Cross-domain speech enhancement (SE) is often faced with severe challenges due to the scarcity of noise and background information in an unseen target domain, leading to a mismatch between training and test conditions. This study puts…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chien-Chun Wang , Li-Wei Chen , Hung-Shin Lee , Berlin Chen , Hsin-Min Wang