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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…
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Hidden hearing loss, or cochlear neural degeneration (CND), disrupts suprathreshold auditory coding without affecting clinical thresholds, making it difficult to diagnose. We present an information-theoretic framework to evaluate speech…
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Decoding speech information from scalp EEG remains difficult due to low SNR and spatial blurring. We present CIPHER (Conformer-based Inference of Phonemes from High-density EEG Representations), a dual-pathway model using (i) ERP features…
Electroencephalogram (EEG) based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) may provide a means of communication for those affected by severe paralysis. However, the relatively low information transfer rates (ITR) of these systems, currently limited…
Recently, artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies have been increasingly utilized in a wide range of real-world applications. Speech recognition is one of these practical AI tasks and is regarded as a key application for edge AI systems.…
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We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…
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