In this paper we demonstrate spoken speech enhancement using electroencephalography (EEG) signals using a generative adversarial network (GAN) based model, gated recurrent unit (GRU) regression based model, temporal convolutional network (TCN) regression model and finally using a mixed TCN GRU regression model. We comp…
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Improved speech enhancement using diffusion models with MSE loss.
problem Efficient incorporation of noisy speech in generative speech enhancement.
method Augmented diffusion-based generative model with a MSE loss for enhanced speech.
result Proposed method improves speech enhancement performance compared to original diffusion model.
Speech enhancement improved by adapting to unknown speakers without auxiliary signals.
problem Improving speech enhancement accuracy for unknown speakers.
method Adopting multi-task learning for speech enhancement and speaker identification, using multi-head self-attention.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance and improved subjective quality.
Diffusion models enhance speech without supervision.
problem Challenges in generalizing supervised speech enhancement methods to unseen conditions.
method Unsupervised speech enhancement using diffusion-based generative models.
result Demonstrates promising results compared to supervised and unsupervised baselines.
This paper proposes a deep speech enhancement method which exploits the high potential of residual connections in a wide neural network architecture, a topology known as Wide Residual Network. This is supported on single dimensional convolutions computed alongside the time domain, which is a powerful approach to proces…
We address the problem of speech enhancement generalisation to unseen environments by performing two manipulations. First, we embed an additional recording from the environment alone, and use this embedding to alter activations in the main enhancement subnetwork. Second, we scale the number of noise environments presen…
This paper presents a statistical method of single-channel speech enhancement that uses a variational autoencoder (VAE) as a prior distribution on clean speech. A standard approach to speech enhancement is to train a deep neural network (DNN) to take noisy speech as input and output clean speech. Although this supervis…
Efficient trainable front-end for neural speech enhancement.
problem Inefficient STFT front-ends in neural speech enhancement models.
method Butterfly mechanism for Fast Fourier Transform, trainable STFT window.
result Accuracy and efficiency improvements for low-compute systems.
Improved speech enhancement with larger neural networks using novel embeddings and biases.
problem Decreased robustness of speech enhancement models to real-world use cases.
method Frequency-positional embeddings, semi-supervised training, biased loss function.
result Better performance on real recordings with improved large neural network architecture.
Speech enhancement model is used to map a noisy speech to a clean speech. In the training stage, an objective function is often adopted to optimize the model parameters. However, in most studies, there is an inconsistency between the model optimization criterion and the evaluation criterion on the enhanced speech. For …
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are of vital importance nowadays in commonplace tasks such as speech-to-text processing and language translation. This created the need for an ASR system that can operate in realistic crowded environments. Thus, speech enhancement is a valuable building block in ASR systems an…
RDL-Net improves speech enhancement with fewer parameters and better performance.
problem Improving speech enhancement with fewer parameters and better performance.
method Proposes RDL-Net, a CNN combining residual and dense aggregations without over-allocating parameters.
result RDL-Net achieves higher speech enhancement performance with fewer parameters and lower computational requirements.
This paper tackles unsupervised speech enhancement using RVAE and proposes efficient sampling methods.
problem Unsupervised speech enhancement with high computational complexity.
method Recurrent variational autoencoder (RVAE) combined with Langevin dynamics and Metropolis-Hasting sampling.
result Sampling-based algorithms outperform VEM and achieve robust generalization.
WaveCRN: An Efficient Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network for End-to-end Speech Enhancementeess.AS
WaveCRN improves E2E speech enhancement with efficient CNN and SRU.
problem Efficiently modeling speech locality and sequential properties for E2E speech enhancement.
method WaveCRN uses a CNN for speech locality and SRU for temporal sequential modeling, with RFM for noise suppression.
result WaveCRN outperforms state-of-the-art approaches with reduced complexity and inference time.
This study proposes a trainable adaptive window switching (AWS) method and apply it to a deep-neural-network (DNN) for speech enhancement in the modified discrete cosine transform domain. Time-frequency (T-F) mask processing in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-domain is a typical speech enhancement method. To re…
MASnet enhances speech on mobile devices with low latency.
problem Efficiently enhancing speech on mobile devices with low latency.
method MASnet processes linear-scale spectrograms, using ratio masks to enhance noisy frames, and operates in low-latency incremental inference mode.
result MASnet achieves efficient speech enhancement with low latency, reducing FMA/s operations.
This paper focuses on single-channel semi-supervised speech enhancement. We learn a speaker-independent deep generative speech model using the framework of variational autoencoders. The noise model remains unsupervised because we do not assume prior knowledge of the noisy recording environment. In this context, our con…
Enhanced transformer converts whispered speech to natural speech.
problem Machine recognition of whispered speech is challenging.
method Proposes an enhanced transformer architecture trained end-to-end using supervised learning.
result Similar formant distributions of converted speech to groundtruth.
This study proposes a fully convolutional network (FCN) model for raw waveform-based speech enhancement. The proposed system performs speech enhancement in an end-to-end (i.e., waveform-in and waveform-out) manner, which dif-fers from most existing denoising methods that process the magnitude spectrum (e.g., log power …
In this paper, we analyzed how audio-visual speech enhancement can help to perform the ASR task in a cocktail party scenario. Therefore we considered two simple end-to-end LSTM-based models that perform single-channel audio-visual speech enhancement and phone recognition respectively. Then, we studied how the two model…
Most deep learning-based models for speech enhancement have mainly focused on estimating the magnitude of spectrogram while reusing the phase from noisy speech for reconstruction. This is due to the difficulty of estimating the phase of clean speech. To improve speech enhancement performance, we tackle the phase estima…
Quaternion Conformer GAN (QC-GAN) is a parameter-efficient speech enhancement framework that combines a Quaternion Conformer generator with MetricGAN-based training.
problem Speech Enhancement
method Quaternion Conformer GAN
result Achieved a PESQ score of 3.48 with 0.89M parameters, comparable to state-of-the-art models at less than half their size.
Improved speech enhancement with MNTFA using time-frequency attention.
problem Speech enhancement with limited model size and memory.
method Designing MNTFA with self-attention modules for long sequences and joint training.
result MNTFA achieves better performance with fewer parameters than DPCRN.
Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential of cond…
Real-time speech enhancement model removes various noises and reverb.
problem Real-time speech enhancement in noisy environments.
method Causal speech enhancement model using encoder-decoder architecture with skip-connections, optimized in time and frequency domains.
result The model matches state-of-the-art performance while working directly on raw waveform.
HASP: A High-Performance Adaptive Mobile Security Enhancement Against Malicious Speech Recognitioncs.CR
Nowadays, machine learning based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technique has widely spread in smartphones, home devices, and public facilities. As convenient as this technology can be, a considerable security issue also raises -- the users' speech content might be exposed to malicious ASR monitoring and cause seve…
Stabilizes training of DNN for speech enhancement using PESQ scores.
problem Stability issues in training DNNs using non-differentiable OSQA scores.
method Approximate OSQA scores with a differentiable auxiliary DNN and stabilize training with reinforcement learning techniques.
result Stable training of DNN to achieve state-of-the-art PESQ scores and better sound quality.
Generative adversarial networks (GAN) have recently been shown to be efficient for speech enhancement. However, most, if not all, existing speech enhancement GANs (SEGAN) make use of a single generator to perform one-stage enhancement mapping. In this work, we propose to use multiple generators that are chained to perf…
TinyLSTMs reduces speech enhancement model size and latency for hearing aids.
problem Large RNNs limit practical deployment in hearing aid hardware.
method Model compression techniques (pruning, integer quantization, state update skipping) for RNN speech enhancement.
result Reduction in model size and operations by 11.9 and 2.9, respectively, without perceptual degradation.
Thanks to the growing availability of spoofing databases and rapid advances in using them, systems for detecting voice spoofing attacks are becoming more and more capable, and error rates close to zero are being reached for the ASVspoof2015 database. However, speech synthesis and voice conversion paradigms that are not…
In this paper we investigate whether electroencephalography (EEG) features can be used to improve the performance of continuous visual speech recognition systems. We implemented a connectionist temporal classification (CTC) based end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for performing recognition. Our result…
In a noisy environment, a lossy speech signal can be automatically restored by a listener if he/she knows the language well. That is, with the built-in knowledge of a "language model", a listener may effectively suppress noise interference and retrieve the target speech signals. Accordingly, we argue that familiarity w…
In this paper we address speaker-independent multichannel speech enhancement in unknown noisy environments. Our work is based on a well-established multichannel local Gaussian modeling framework. We propose to use a neural network for modeling the speech spectro-temporal content. The parameters of this supervised model…
This paper improves multichannel speech enhancement using complex ratio masking and channel-attention.
problem Limited performance of deep learning methods in multichannel speech enhancement.
method Introduces complex ratio masking and channel-attention mechanism inside a U-Net architecture.
result Demonstrates superior performance on the CHiME-3 dataset.
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
Speech enhancement (SE) aims to reduce noise in speech signals. Most SE techniques focus only on addressing audio information. In this work, inspired by multimodal learning, which utilizes data from different modalities, and the recent success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in SE, we propose an audio-visual de…
This paper aims to address two issues existing in the current speech enhancement methods: 1) the difficulty of phase estimations; 2) a single objective function cannot consider multiple metrics simultaneously. To solve the first problem, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) model for complex spectrogra…
FINs enhance performance in diverse datasets like finance, speech, and health.
problem Improving neural network performance across various domains.
method Feature Imitating Networks (FINs) initialize weights to approximate specific statistical features.
result FINs significantly improve performance in Bitcoin price prediction, speech emotion recognition, and chronic neck pain detection.
In this paper we address the problem of enhancing speech signals in noisy mixtures using a source separation approach. We explore the use of neural networks as an alternative to a popular speech variance model based on supervised non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). More precisely, we use a variational autoencoder …
In this letter, we propose enhanced factored three way restricted Boltzmann machines (EFTW-RBMs) for speech detection. The proposed model incorporates conditional feature learning by multiplying the dynamical state of the third unit, which allows a modulation over the visible-hidden node pairs. Instead of stacking prev…
Spoken language translation (SLT) has become very important in an increasingly globalized world. Machine translation (MT) for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a major challenge of great interest. This research investigates that automatic sentence segmentation of speech that is important for enriching speec…
This paper describes multichannel speech enhancement for improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy environments. Recently, the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming has widely been used because it works well if the steering vector of speech and the spatial covariance matrix (SCM) of no…
We apply a fast kernel method for mask-based single-channel speech enhancement. Specifically, our method solves a kernel regression problem associated to a non-smooth kernel function (exponential power kernel) with a highly efficient iterative method (EigenPro). Due to the simplicity of this method, its hyper-parameter…
Recent studies have explored the use of deep generative models of speech spectra based of variational autoencoders (VAEs), combined with unsupervised noise models, to perform speech enhancement. These studies developed iterative algorithms involving either Gibbs sampling or gradient descent at each step, making them co…
When designing fully-convolutional neural network, there is a trade-off between receptive field size, number of parameters and spatial resolution of features in deeper layers of the network. In this work we present a novel network design based on combination of many convolutional and recurrent layers that solves these …
Textual Echo Cancellationeess.AS
Proposes Textual Echo Cancellation to improve speech recognition.
problem Improving speech recognition performance and user experience for smart devices.
method A novel sequence-to-sequence model with multi-source attention that processes both the microphone mixture signal and source text of TTS playback.
result Demonstrates enhanced speech recognition performance and reduced latency.
We propose a Text-to-Speech method to create an unseen expressive style using one utterance of expressive speech of around one second. Specifically, we enhance the disentanglement capabilities of a state-of-the-art sequence-to-sequence based system with a Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) and a Householder Flow. The propos…
Recent deep learning approaches have achieved impressive performance on speech enhancement and separation tasks. However, these approaches have not been investigated for separating mixtures of arbitrary sounds of different types, a task we refer to as universal sound separation, and it is unknown how performance on spe…