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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

Achieving high perceptual quality without hallucination remains a challenge in generative speech enhancement (SE). A representative approach, PASE, is robust to hallucination but has limited perceptual quality under adverse conditions. We…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Xiaobin Rong , Jun Gao , Zheng Wang , Mansur Yesilbursa , Kamil Wojcicki , Jing Lu

Generative speech enhancement (GSE) models show great promise in producing high-quality clean speech from noisy inputs, enabling applications such as curating noisy text-to-speech (TTS) datasets into high-quality ones. However, GSE models…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kazuki Yamauchi , Masato Murata , Shogo Seki

Separating two sources from an audio mixture is an important task with many applications. It is a challenging problem since only one signal channel is available for analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for singing voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Zhe-Cheng Fan , Yen-Lin Lai , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

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

There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series aims to foster such universal SE by embracing a broad range…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Samuele Cornell , Robin Scheibler , Chenda Li , Zhaoheng Ni , Anurag Kumar , Marvin Sach , Yihui Fu , Wei Wang , Tim Fingscheidt , Shinji Watanabe

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise. Our approach is based on generative inverse sampling, where we model clean speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yochai Yemini , Yoav Ellinson , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

We propose a multi-stage framework for universal speech enhancement, designed for the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge. Our system first employs a Sparse Compression Network to robustly separate sources and extract an initial clean speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nabarun Goswami , Tatsuya Harada

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

Speech super-resolution (SR) is the task that restores high-resolution speech from low-resolution input. Existing models employ simulated data and constrained experimental settings, which limit generalization to real-world SR. Predictive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Heming Wang , Eric W. Healy , DeLiang Wang

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

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

Speech synthesis is an important practical generative modeling problem that has seen great progress over the last few years, with likelihood-based autoregressive neural models now outperforming traditional concatenative systems. A downside…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Alexey A. Gritsenko , Tim Salimans , Rianne van den Berg , Jasper Snoek , Nal Kalchbrenner

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

Automatic syllable stress detection is a crucial component in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems for language learners. Current stress detection models are typically trained on clean speech, which may not be robust in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Rangavajjala Sankara Bharadwaj , Jhansi Mallela , Sai Harshitha Aluru , Chiranjeevi Yarra

In real-world scenarios, speech signals are inevitably corrupted by various types of interference, making speech enhancement (SE) a critical task for robust speech processing. However, most existing SE methods only handle a limited range of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Fei Liu , Yang Ai , Ye-Xin Lu , Rui-Chen Zheng , Hui-Peng Du , Zhen-Hua Ling

Target speech extraction (TSE) has achieved strong performance in relatively simple conditions such as one-speaker-plus-noise and two-speaker mixtures, but its performance remains unsatisfactory in noisy multi-speaker scenarios. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Ziling Huang , Junnan Wu , Lichun Fan , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

In this paper we present a single-microphone speech enhancement algorithm. A hybrid approach is proposed merging the generative mixture of Gaussians (MoG) model and the discriminative neural network (NN). The proposed algorithm is executed…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Shlomo E. Chazan , Jacob Goldberger , Sharon Gannot

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao