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Speech quality and intelligibility are significantly degraded in noisy environments. This paper presents a novel transformer-based learning framework to address the single-channel noise suppression problem for real-time applications.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Behnaz Bahmei , Siamak Arzanpour , Elina Birmingham

Most of the prior studies in the spatial \ac{DoA} domain focus on a single modality. However, humans use auditory and visual senses to detect the presence of sound sources. With this motivation, we propose to use neural networks with audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Xinyuan Qian , Maulik Madhavi , Zexu Pan , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

This paper presents an audio visual automatic speech recognition (AV-ASR) system using a Transformer-based architecture. We particularly focus on the scene context provided by the visual information, to ground the ASR. We extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Srinivas Parthasarathy , Aparna Khare , Shiva Sundaram

Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) has gained remarkable success for ameliorating the noise-robustness of speech recognition. Mainstream methods focus on fusing audio and visual inputs to obtain modality-invariant representations.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Qiang Zhang , Heqing Zou , Beier Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Automatic recognition of overlapped speech remains a highly challenging task to date. Motivated by the bimodal nature of human speech perception, this paper investigates the use of audio-visual technologies for overlapped speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Jianwei Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Jian Wu , Shahram Ghorbani , Bo Wu , Shiyin Kang , Shansong Liu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng , Dong Yu

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems nowadays integrate Large Language Model (LLM) decoders with transformer-based encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results. However, the relative contributions of improved language modelling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Aristeidis Papadopoulos , Rishabh Jain , Naomi Harte

While speech interaction finds widespread utility within the Extended Reality (XR) domain, conventional vocal speech keyword spotting systems continue to grapple with formidable challenges, including suboptimal performance in noisy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Zhuojiang Cai , Yuhan Ma , Feng Lu

Current Audio-Visual Source Separation methods primarily adopt two design strategies. The first strategy involves fusing audio and visual features at the bottleneck layer of the encoder, followed by processing the fused features through the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yinfeng Yu , Shiyu Sun

Audio-visual feature synchronization for real-time speech enhancement in hearing aids represents a progressive approach to improving speech intelligibility and user experience, particularly in strong noisy backgrounds. This approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Nasir Saleem , Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Adeel Hussain , Usman Anwar , Adewale Adetomi , Tughrul Arslan , Amir Hussain

The practical deployment of Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems is fundamentally challenged by significant performance degradation in real-world environments, characterized by unpredictable acoustic noise and visual interference.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Sungnyun Kim

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

Humans have the ability to utilize visual cues, such as lip movements and visual scenes, to enhance auditory perception, particularly in noisy environments. However, current Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or Audio-Visual Speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Lakshmipathi Balaji , Karan Singla

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) achieves robust speech recognition in noisy environments by combining auditory and visual information. However, recent Large Language Model (LLM) based AVSR systems incur high computational costs due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro

Audio-visual information fusion enables a performance improvement in speech recognition performed in complex acoustic scenarios, e.g., noisy environments. It is required to explore an effective audio-visual fusion strategy for audiovisual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Liangfa Wei , Jie Zhang , Junfeng Hou , Lirong Dai

Noise robustness is essential for deploying automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in real-world environments. One way to reduce the effect of noise interference is to employ a preprocessing module that conducts speech enhancement, and…

In this work, we investigate application of generative speech enhancement to improve the robustness of ASR models in noisy and reverberant conditions. We employ a recently-proposed speech enhancement model based on Schr\"odinger bridge,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Rauf Nasretdinov , Roman Korostik , Ante Jukić

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) seeks to model, and thereby exploit, the dynamic relationship between a human voice and the corresponding mouth movements. A recently proposed multimodal fusion strategy, AV Align, based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 George Sterpu , Christian Saam , Naomi Harte

Joint training of speech enhancement model (SE) and speech recognition model (ASR) is a common solution for robust ASR in noisy environments. SE focuses on improving the auditory quality of speech, but the enhanced feature distribution is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Shilei Zhang

Audio data, often synchronized with video frames, plays a crucial role in guiding the audience's visual attention. Incorporating audio information into video saliency prediction tasks can enhance the prediction of human visual behavior.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Li Yu , Xuanzhe Sun , Pan Gao , Moncef Gabbouj

In recent research, slight performance improvement is observed from automatic speech recognition systems to audio-visual speech recognition systems in the end-to-end framework with low-quality videos. Unmatching convergence rates and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yusheng Dai , Hang Chen , Jun Du , Xiaofei Ding , Ning Ding , Feijun Jiang , Chin-Hui Lee