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Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jen-Cheng Hou , Syu-Siang Wang , Ying-Hui Lai , Yu Tsao , Hsiu-Wen Chang , Hsin-Min Wang

Though significant progress has been made for the voice conversion (VC) of typical speech, VC for atypical speech, e.g., dysarthric and second-language (L2) speech, remains a challenge, since it involves correcting for atypical prosody…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Disong Wang , Songxiang Liu , Lifa Sun , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) methods typically rely on pre-trained speaker verification models or self-designed speaker encoders to extract target speaker clues, guiding the PSE model in isolating the desired speech. However, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Ziling Huang , Haixin Guan , Haoran Wei , Yanhua Long

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

High-quality speech corpora are essential foundations for most speech applications. However, such speech data are expensive and limited since they are collected in professional recording environments. In this work, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Haoyu Li , Yang Ai , Junichi Yamagishi

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

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

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

We propose an algorithm to denoise speakers from a single microphone in the presence of non-stationary and dynamic noise. Our approach is inspired by the recent success of neural network models separating speakers from other speakers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Jeff Hetherly , Paul Gamble , Maria Barrios , Cory Stephenson , Karl Ni

Real-world audio recordings often contain multiple speakers and various degradations, which limit both the quantity and quality of speech data available for building state-of-the-art speech processing models. Although end-to-end approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kohei Asai , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The human brain contextually exploits heterogeneous sensory information to efficiently perform cognitive tasks including vision and hearing. For example, during the cocktail party situation, the human auditory cortex contextually integrates…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Amir Hussain

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has seen huge improvements and recently also expanded to full band audio (48 kHz). However, many approaches have a rather high computational complexity and require big temporal buffers for real time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

This paper introduces an audio-visual speech enhancement system that leverages score-based generative models, also known as diffusion models, conditioned on visual information. In particular, we exploit audio-visual embeddings obtained from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Julius Richter , Simone Frintrop , Timo Gerkmann

This paper proposes a deep denoising auto-encoder technique to extract better acoustic features for speech synthesis. The technique allows us to automatically extract low-dimensional features from high dimensional spectral features in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Zhenzhou Wu , Shinji Takaki , Junichi Yamagishi

The joint training of speech enhancement and speaker embedding networks for speaker recognition is widely adopted under noisy acoustic environments. While effective, this paradigm often fails to leverage the generalization and robustness…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Chong-Xin Gan , Peter Bell , Man-Wai Mak , Zhe Li , Zezhong Jin , Zilong Huang , Kong Aik Lee

In this work, we present an analysis of a DNN-based autoencoder for speech enhancement, dereverberation and denoising. The target application is a robust speaker verification (SV) system. We start our approach by carefully designing a data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Ondrej Novotny , Oldrich Plchot , Ondrej Glembek , Jan "Honza" Cernocky , Lukas Burget

We address the problem of speech enhancement generalisation to unseen environments by performing two manipulations. First, we embed an additional recording from the environment alone, and use this embedding to alter activations in the main…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-31 Gil Keren , Jing Han , Björn Schuller

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan