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In real acoustic environment, speech enhancement is an arduous task to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech interfered by background noise and reverberation. Over the past years, deep learning has shown great potential on…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Kanghao Zhang , Shulin He , Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang

This paper investigates a self-adaptation method for speech enhancement using auxiliary speaker-aware features; we extract a speaker representation used for adaptation directly from the test utterance. Conventional studies of deep neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Yuma Koizumi , Kohei Yatabe , Marc Delcroix , Yoshiki Masuyama , Daiki Takeuchi

Cochlear implants(CIs) are arguably the most successful neural implant, having restored hearing to over one million people worldwide. While CI research has focused on modeling the cochlear activations in response to low-level acoustic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Cynthia R. Steinhardt , Menoua Keshishian , Nima Mesgarani , Kim Stachenfeld

Learning an effective speaker representation is crucial for achieving reliable performance in speaker verification tasks. Speech signals are high-dimensional, long, and variable-length sequences containing diverse information at each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

This article investigates the use of deep neural networks (DNNs) for hearing-loss compensation. Hearing loss is a prevalent issue affecting millions of people worldwide, and conventional hearing aids have limitations in providing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Peter Leer , Jesper Jensen , Laurel H. Carney , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Lars Bramsløw

Recurrent neural nets (RNN) and convolutional neural nets (CNN) are widely used on NLP tasks to capture the long-term and local dependencies, respectively. Attention mechanisms have recently attracted enormous interest due to their highly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

Integration of multiple microphone data is one of the key ways to achieve robust speech recognition in noisy environments or when the speaker is located at some distance from the input device. Signal processing techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Suyoun Kim , Ian Lane

Noisy situations cause huge problems for suffers of hearing loss as hearing aids often make the signal more audible but do not always restore the intelligibility. In noisy settings, humans routinely exploit the audio-visual (AV) nature of…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mandar Gogate , Kia Dashtipour , Ahsan Adeel , Amir Hussain

Speech enhancement is a demanding task in automated speech processing pipelines, focusing on separating clean speech from noisy channels. Transformer based models have recently bested RNN and CNN models in speech enhancement, however at the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jinyu Long , Jetic Gū , Binhao Bai , Zhibo Yang , Ping Wei , Junli Li

As the cornerstone of other important technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, speech enhancement is a critical area in audio signal processing. In this paper, a new deep learning structure for speech enhancement is…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuzi Yan , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Michael T. Johnson

Sub-band models have achieved promising results due to their ability to model local patterns in the spectrogram. Some studies further improve the performance by fusing sub-band and full-band information. However, the structure for the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Feng Dang , Hangting Chen , Pengyuan Zhang

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully used for speech enhancement, and DNN-based speech enhancement is becoming an attractive research area. While time-frequency masking based on the short-time Fourier transform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Yuichiro Koyama , Tyler Vuong , Stefan Uhlich , Bhiksha Raj

In the field of speech enhancement, time domain methods have difficulties in achieving both high performance and efficiency. Recently, dual-path models have been adopted to represent long sequential features, but they still have limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-07 Hyun Joon Park , Byung Ha Kang , Wooseok Shin , Jin Sob Kim , Sung Won Han

Estimating time-frequency domain masks for speech enhancement using deep learning approaches has recently become a popular field of research. In this paper, we propose a mask-based speech enhancement framework by using concatenated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Ziyi Xu , Maximilian Strake , Tim Fingscheidt

Deep-neural-network (DNN) based noise suppression systems yield significant improvements over conventional approaches such as spectral subtraction and non-negative matrix factorization, but do not generalize well to noise conditions they…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Deepak Baby , Sarah Verhulst

Low-complexity speech enhancement on mobile phones is crucial in the era of 5G. Thus, focusing on handheld mobile phone communication scenario, based on power level difference (PLD) algorithm and lightweight U-Net, we propose PLD-guided…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Nan Zhou , Youhai Jiang , Jialin Tan , Chongmin Qi

In this study, we propose a dense frequency-time attentive network (DeFT-AN) for multichannel speech enhancement. DeFT-AN is a mask estimation network that predicts a complex spectral masking pattern for suppressing the noise and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Dongheon Lee , Jung-Woo Choi

DeepFake Audio, unlike DeepFake images and videos, has been relatively less explored from detection perspective, and the solutions which exist for the synthetic speech classification either use complex networks or dont generalize to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Vardhan Dongre , Abhinav Thimma Reddy , Nikhitha Reddeddy

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to focus auditory attention in complex acoustic environments, such as cocktail parties. Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the attended speaker by analyzing brain signals, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Yuan Liao , Yuhong Zhang , Qiushi Han , Yuhang Yang , Weiwei Ding , Yuzhe Gu , Hengxin Yang , Liya Huang