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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

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) models have recently outperformed traditional techniques, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high computational and memory demands. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xihao Yuan , Siqi Liu , Hanting Chen , Lu Zhou , Jian Li , Jie Hu

Although deep learning (DL) has achieved notable progress in speech enhancement (SE), further research is still required for a DL-based SE system to adapt effectively and efficiently to particular speakers. In this study, we propose a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Cheng Yu , Szu-Wei Fu , Tsun-An Hsieh , Yu Tsao , Mirco Ravanelli

From hearing aids to augmented and virtual reality devices, binaural speech enhancement algorithms have been established as state-of-the-art techniques to improve speech intelligibility and listening comfort. In this paper, we present an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Vikas Tokala , Eric Grinstein , Mike Brookes , Simon Doclo , Jesper Jensen , Patrick A. Naylor

As an indispensable part of modern human-computer interaction system, speech synthesis technology helps users get the output of intelligent machine more easily and intuitively, thus has attracted more and more attention. Due to the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Yizhuo Dong

Recent advancements in Neural Audio Codec (NAC) models have inspired their use in various speech processing tasks, including speech enhancement (SE). In this work, we propose a novel, efficient SE approach by leveraging the pre-quantization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Haoyang Li , Jia Qi Yip , Tianyu Fan , Eng Siong Chng

Noisy situations cause huge problems for suffers of hearing loss as hearing aids often make the signal more audible but do not always restore the intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Ahsan Adeel , Amir Hussain

The performances of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems degrade drastically under noisy conditions. Explicit distortion modelling (EDM), as a feature compensation step, is able to enhance ASR systems under such conditions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Z. Guo , C. Chen , E. S. Chng

Inspired by the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in speech processing, this paper presents Deep Vocoder, a direct end-to-end low bit rate speech compression method with deep autoencoder (DAE). In Deep Vocoder, DAE is used for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Gang Min , Changqing Zhang , Xiongwei Zhang , Wei Tan

Target speaker information can be utilized in speech enhancement (SE) models to more effectively extract the desired speech. Previous works introduce the speaker embedding into speech enhancement models by means of concatenation or affine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-17 Xiaohuai Le , Li Chen , Chao He , Yiqing Guo , Cheng Chen , Xianjun Xia , Jing Lu

Diffusion speech enhancement on discrete audio codec features gain immense attention due to their improved speech component reconstruction capability. However, they usually suffer from high inference computational complexity due to multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yihui Fu , Tim Fingscheidt

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

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

With the advances in deep learning, speech enhancement systems benefited from large neural network architectures and achieved state-of-the-art quality. However, speaker-agnostic methods are not always desirable, both in terms of quality and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Anastasia Kuznetsova , Aswin Sivaraman , Minje Kim

An accurate objective speech intelligibility prediction algorithms is of great interest for many applications such as speech enhancement for hearing aids. Most algorithms measures the signal-to-noise ratios or correlations between the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Zehai Tu , Ning Ma , Jon Barker

The optimization of a wavelet-based algorithm to improve speech intelligibility along with the full data set and results are reported. The discrete-time speech signal is split into frequency sub-bands via a multi-level discrete wavelet…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tianqu Kang , Anh-Dung Dinh , Binghong Wang , Tianyuan Du , Yijia Chen , Kevin Chau

Speech enhancement algorithms based on deep learning have greatly surpassed their traditional counterparts and are now being considered for the task of removing acoustic echo from hands-free communication systems. This is a challenging…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Jean-Marc Valin , Srikanth Tenneti , Karim Helwani , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) is the task of improving speech quality and intelligibility in a noisy environment using audio and visual information from a talker. Recently, deep learning techniques have been adopted to solve the…

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

In this paper we consider the problem of speech enhancement in real-world like conditions where multiple noises can simultaneously corrupt speech. Most of the current literature on speech enhancement focus primarily on presence of single…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Anurag Kumar , Dinei Florencio