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This paper addresses unsupervised diffusion-based single-channel speech enhancement (SE). Prior work in this direction combines a score-based diffusion model trained on clean speech with a Gaussian noise model whose covariance is structured…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

We propose Speech Enhancement based on Drifting Models (DriftSE), a novel generative framework that formulates denoising as an equilibrium problem. Rather than relying on iterative sampling, DriftSE natively achieves one-step inference by…

Generative target speaker extraction (TSE) methods often produce more natural outputs than predictive models. Recent work based on diffusion or flow matching (FM) typically relies on a small, fixed number of reverse steps with a fixed step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tsun-An Hsieh , Minje Kim

Real-world speech recordings suffer from degradations such as background noise and reverberation. Speech enhancement aims to mitigate these issues by generating clean high-fidelity signals. While recent generative approaches for speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Heitor R. Guimarães , Jiaqi Su , Rithesh Kumar , Tiago H. Falk , Zeyu Jin

Recent research has delved into speech enhancement (SE) approaches that leverage audio embeddings from pre-trained models, diverging from time-frequency masking or signal prediction techniques. This paper introduces an efficient and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Xingwei Sun , Heinrich Dinkel , Yadong Niu , Linzhang Wang , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

Speech enhancement (SE) based on diffusion probabilistic models has exhibited impressive performance, while requiring a relatively high number of function evaluations (NFE). Recently, SE based on flow matching has been proposed, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Seonggyu Lee , Sein Cheong , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has gained remarkable successes thanks to recent advances of deep learning, but it usually degrades significantly under real-world noisy conditions. Recent works introduce speech enhancement (SE) as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Qiushi Zhu , Eng Siong Chng

Current pre-training works in natural language generation pay little attention to the problem of exposure bias on downstream tasks. To address this issue, we propose an enhanced multi-flow sequence to sequence pre-training and fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Dongling Xiao , Han Zhang , Yukun Li , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent studies demonstrate the effectiveness of Self Supervised Learning (SSL) speech representations for Speech Inversion (SI). However, applying SI in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the pervasive presence of background…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Saba Tabatabaee , Carol Espy-Wilson

Conventional deep neural network (DNN)-based speech enhancement (SE) approaches aim to minimize the mean square error (MSE) between enhanced speech and clean reference. The MSE-optimized model may not directly improve the performance of an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-13 Yih-Liang Shen , Chao-Yuan Huang , Syu-Siang Wang , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang , Tai-Shih Chi

This paper presents a generative approach to speech enhancement based on a recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE). The deep generative speech model is trained using clean speech signals only, and it is combined with a nonnegative matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simon Leglaive , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Target speaker extraction (TSE) extracts the target speaker's voice from overlapping speech mixtures given a reference utterance. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories: discriminative and generative. Discriminative methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Junwon Moon , Hyunjin Choi , Hansol Park , Heeseung Kim , Kyuhong Shim

Deploying speech enhancement (SE) systems in wearable devices, such as smart glasses, is challenging due to the limited computational resources on the device. Although deep learning methods have achieved high-quality results, their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Heitor R. Guimarães , Ke Tan , Juan Azcarreta , Jesus Alvarez , Prabhav Agrawal , Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu

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

Generative models have shown robust performance on speech enhancement and restoration tasks, but most prior approaches operate offline with high latency, making them unsuitable for streaming applications. In this work, we investigate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tsun-An Hsieh , Sebastian Braun

Generative models have shown great potential in trajectory planning. Recent studies demonstrate that anchor-guided generative models are effective in modeling the uncertainty of driving behaviors and improving overall performance. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Junli Wang , Yinan Zheng , Xueyi Liu , Zebin Xing , Pengfei Li , Guang Li , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Zhongpu Xia , Long Chen , Qichao Zhang

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to recover the speech of a desired speaker from a mixture given a short enrollment utterance, while speech enhancement (SE) focuses on improving speech quality under noisy conditions. Most existing TSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Bang Zeng , Beilong Tang , Wang Xiang , Ming Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminative, recent generative methods for TSE achieve strong results.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Yael Segal-Feldman , Neta Glazer , Gil Hetz , Joseph Keshet

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

Recent speech enhancement (SE) models increasingly leverage self-supervised learning (SSL) representations for their rich semantic information. Typically, intermediate features are aggregated into a single representation via a lightweight…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seungu Han , Sungho Lee , Kyogu Lee