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Self-supervised learning enables the training of large neural models without the need for large, labeled datasets. It has been generating breakthroughs in several fields, including computer vision, natural language processing, biology, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Luis Lugo , Valentin Vielzeuf

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

Speech enhancement is an essential task of improving speech quality in noise scenario. Several state-of-the-art approaches have introduced visual information for speech enhancement,since the visual aspect of speech is essentially unaffected…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Xinmeng Xu , Yang Wang , Dongxiang Xu , Yiyuan Peng , Cong Zhang , Jie Jia , Binbin Chen

The speech enhancement task usually consists of removing additive noise or reverberation that partially mask spoken utterances, affecting their intelligibility. However, little attention is drawn to other, perhaps more aggressive signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Santiago Pascual , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte

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

Supervised speech enhancement methods have been very successful. However, in practical scenarios, there is a lack of clean speech, and self-supervised learning-based (SSL) speech enhancement methods that offer comparable enhancement…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Ritwik Giri , Zhiqiang Tang , Kyu Han

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

Integrating front-end speech enhancement (SE) models with self-supervised learning (SSL)-based speech models is effective for downstream tasks in noisy conditions. SE models are commonly fine-tuned using SSL representations with mean…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Amit Meghanani , Thomas Hain

Noise robustness is a key aspect of successful speech applications. Speech enhancement (SE) has been investigated to improve automatic speech recognition accuracy; however, its effectiveness for keyword spotting (KWS) is still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Avamarie Brueggeman , Takuya Higuchi , Masood Delfarah , Stephen Shum , Vineet Garg

Self-supervised features are typically used in place of filter-bank features in speaker verification models. However, these models were originally designed to ingest filter-bank features as inputs, and thus, training them on top of…

Recent single-channel speech enhancement methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable results, but there are still generalization problems in real scenes. Like other data-driven methods, DNN-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Lu Zhang , Mingjiang Wang , Andong Li , Zehua Zhang , Xuyi Zhuang

Recently, the end-to-end training approach for neural beamformer-supported multi-channel ASR has shown its effectiveness in multi-channel speech recognition. However, the integration of multiple modules makes it more difficult to perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Keyu An , Zhijian Ou

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has grown in interest within the speech processing community, since it produces representations that are useful for many downstream tasks. SSL uses global and contextual methods to produce robust…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Subrina Sultana , Donald S. Williamson

This paper investigates several aspects of training a RNN (recurrent neural network) that impact the objective and subjective quality of enhanced speech for real-time single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, we focus on a RNN that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Yangyang Xia , Sebastian Braun , Chandan K. A. Reddy , Harishchandra Dubey , Ross Cutler , Ivan Tashev

This paper proposes a speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a Wide Residual Network architecture. This is supported on single dimensional convolutions computed alongside the time domain,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-11 Jorge Llombart , Dayana Ribas , Antonio Miguel , Luis Vicente , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

Sustainable artificial intelligence focuses on data, hardware, and algorithms to make machine learning models more environmentally responsible. In particular, machine learning models for speech representations are computationally expensive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Luis Lugo , Valentin Vielzeuf

Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has demonstrated superior performance than supervised models for tasks including phoneme recognition. Training SSRL models poses a challenge for low-resource languages where sufficient…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Asad Ullah , Alessandro Ragano , Andrew Hines

Eliminating the negative effect of non-stationary environmental noise is a long-standing research topic for automatic speech recognition that stills remains an important challenge. Data-driven supervised approaches, including ones based on…

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have produced significantly improved results in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. They are difficult to train, however. In this work, we introduce several improvements to the GAN training…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye , Kazuhito Koishida

Speech enhancement has recently achieved great success with various deep learning methods. However, most conventional speech enhancement systems are trained with supervised methods that impose two significant challenges. First, a majority…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Viet Anh Trinh , Sebastian Braun