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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

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AVTSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice in a multi-speaker environment with visual cues as auxiliary. Most of the existing AVTSE methods encode visual and audio features simultaneously,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zixuan Li , Xueliang Zhang , Lei Miao , Zhipeng Yan , Ying Sun , Chong Zhu

In this work, we propose a training algorithm for an audio-visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using deep recurrent neural network (RNN).First, we train a deep RNN acoustic model with a Connectionist Temporal Classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Abhinav Thanda , Shankar M Venkatesan

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) is an extension of ASR that incorporates visual signals. Current AVSR approaches primarily focus on lip motion, largely overlooking rich context present in the video such as speaking scene and…

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) aims to enhance degraded speech along with extra visual information such as lip videos, and has been shown to be more effective than audio-only speech enhancement. This paper proposes the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Rui-Chen Zheng , Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

We investigate the effectiveness of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for speech enhancement, in the context of improving noise robustness of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Prior work demonstrates that GANs can effectively…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Chris Donahue , Bo Li , Rohit Prabhavalkar

In this study, we try to address the problem of leveraging visual signals to improve Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), also known as visual context-aware ASR (VC-ASR). We explore novel VC-ASR approaches to leverage video and text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Shahram Ghorbani , Yashesh Gaur , Yu Shi , Jinyu Li

The use of deep networks to extract embeddings for speaker recognition has proven successfully. However, such embeddings are susceptible to performance degradation due to the mismatches among the training, enrollment, and test conditions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) incorporates auditory and visual modalities to improve recognition accuracy, particularly in noisy environments where audio-only speech systems are insufficient. While previous research has largely…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Sungnyun Kim , Sungwoo Cho , Sangmin Bae , Kangwook Jang , Se-Young Yun

Audiovisual Automatic Speech Recognition (AV-ASR) aims to improve speech recognition accuracy by leveraging visual signals. It is particularly challenging in unconstrained real-world scenarios across various domains due to noisy acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yihan Wu , Yichen Lu , Yifan Peng , Xihua Wang , Ruihua Song , Shinji Watanabe

We present an approach to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition that builds on a pre-trained Whisper model. To infuse visual information into this audio-only model, we extend it with an AV fusion module and LoRa adapters, one of the most…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Christopher Simic , Korbinian Riedhammer , Tobias Bocklet

This paper presents, a first of its kind, audio-visual (AV) speech enhacement challenge in real-noisy settings. A detailed description of the AV challenge, a novel real noisy AV corpus (ASPIRE), benchmark speech enhancement task, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Mandar Gogate , Ahsan Adeel , Kia Dashtipour , Peter Derleth , Amir Hussain

When video is shot in noisy environment, the voice of a speaker seen in the video can be enhanced using the visible mouth movements, reducing background noise. While most existing methods use audio-only inputs, improved performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Aviv Gabbay , Asaph Shamir , Shmuel Peleg

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) typically improves recognition accuracy in noisy environments by integrating noise-immune visual cues with audio signals. Nevertheless, high-noise audio inputs are prone to introducing adverse…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Linzhi Wu , Xingyu Zhang , Hao Yuan , Yakun Zhang , Changyan Zheng , Liang Xie , Tiejun Liu , Erwei Yin

Real-time audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) is a key enabler for immersive and interactive multimedia services, yet its performance is tightly constrained by network latency, uplink capacity, and computational delay. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Anis Hamadouche , Haifeng Luo , Mathini Sellathurai , Amir Hussain , Tharm Ratnarajah

Speech recognition and translation systems perform poorly on noisy inputs, which are frequent in realistic environments. Augmenting these systems with visual signals has the potential to improve robustness to noise. However, audio-visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 HyoJung Han , Mohamed Anwar , Juan Pino , Wei-Ning Hsu , Marine Carpuat , Bowen Shi , Changhan Wang

Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating auxiliary information, such as speaker voiceprint or visual cues, can substantially improve Speech Enhancement (SE) performance. However, single-channel methods often yield suboptimal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Chihyun Liu , Jiaxuan Fan , Mingtung Sun , Michael Anthony , Mingsian R. Bai , Yu Tsao

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) integrates acoustic and visual information to enhance robustness in adverse acoustic conditions. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have yielded competitive automatic speech recognition…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Fei Su , Cancan Li , Juan Liu , Wei Ju , Hongbin Suo , Ming Li