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In this paper, we are interested in audio-visual speech separation given a single-channel audio recording as well as visual information (lips movements) associated with each speaker. We propose an unsupervised technique based on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Viet-Nhat Nguyen , Mostafa Sadeghi , Elisa Ricci , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

A primary challenge when deploying speaker recognition systems in real-world applications is performance degradation caused by environmental mismatch. We propose a diffusion-based method that takes speaker embeddings extracted from a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 KiHyun Nam , Jungwoo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Gangin Park , Chaeyoung Jung , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

Acoustic echo and background noise pose challenges on speech enhancement in hands-free systems and speakerphones. Discriminatively trained end-to-end methods represent a powerful solution for joint acoustic echo control (AEC) and denoising.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Haljan Lugo Girao , Ernst Seidel , Pejman Mowlaee , Ziyue Zhao , Tim Fingscheidt

With the development of deep learning, speech enhancement has been greatly optimized in terms of speech quality. Previous methods typically focus on the discriminative supervised learning or generative modeling, which tends to introduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Nan Xu , Zhaolong Huang , Xiaonan Zhi

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have recently been applied to speech enhancement successfully. Previous works have demonstrated their superior performance in mismatched conditions compared to state-of-the art…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

This study addresses the speech enhancement (SE) task within the causal inference paradigm by modeling the noise presence as an intervention. Based on the potential outcome framework, the proposed causal inference-based speech enhancement…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Tsun-An Hsieh , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Yu Tsao

This work proposes an efficient method to enhance the quality of corrupted speech signals by leveraging both acoustic and visual cues. While existing diffusion-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable quality, their applicability is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Chaeyoung Jung , Suyeon Lee , Ji-Hoon Kim , Joon Son Chung

Diffusion-based speech enhancement (SE) achieves natural-sounding speech and strong generalization, yet suffers from key limitations like generative artifacts and high inference latency. In this work, we systematically study artifact…

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

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved remarkable results in speech and vocal enhancement due to their ability to model complex speech data distributions. While these models generalize well to unseen acoustic environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Yudong Yang , Zhan Liu , Wenyi Yu , Guangzhi Sun , Qiuqiang Kong , Chao Zhang

Recently, the application of diffusion probabilistic models has advanced speech enhancement through generative approaches. However, existing diffusion-based methods have focused on the generation process in high-dimensional waveform or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shengkui Zhao , Zexu Pan , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

Speech enhancement is designed to enhance the intelligibility and quality of speech across diverse noise conditions. Recently, diffusion model has gained lots of attention in speech enhancement area, achieving competitive results. Current…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Chengzhong Wang , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li , Yonghong Yan

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

We propose self-diffusion, a novel framework for solving inverse problems without relying on pretrained generative models. Traditional diffusion-based approaches require training a model on a clean dataset to learn to reverse the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guanxiong Luo , Shoujin Huang , Yanlong Yang

The past decade has witnessed substantial growth of data-driven speech enhancement (SE) techniques thanks to deep learning. While existing approaches have shown impressive performance in some common datasets, most of them are designed only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Wangyou Zhang , Kohei Saijo , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Removing background noise from speech audio has been the subject of considerable effort, especially in recent years due to the rise of virtual communication and amateur recordings. Yet background noise is not the only unpleasant disturbance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Joan Serrà , Santiago Pascual , Jordi Pons , R. Oguz Araz , Davide Scaini

Recently, variational autoencoder (VAE), a deep representation learning (DRL) model, has been used to perform speech enhancement (SE). However, to the best of our knowledge, current VAE-based SE methods only apply VAE to the model speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Yang Xiang , Jesper Lisby Højvang , Morten Højfeldt Rasmussen , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Most current speech enhancement (SE) methods recover clean speech from noisy inputs by directly estimating time-frequency masks or spectrums. However, these approaches often neglect the distinct attributes, such as semantic content and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yang Xiang , Canan Huang , Desheng Hu , Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Chao Zhang

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. Therefore, these models are impractical for processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Bunlong Lay , Rostislav Makarov , Timo Gerkmann

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao