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SEGAN: Speech Enhancement Generative Adversarial Network

arXiv 1703.09452 ↗First posted 28 Mar 2017cs.LG cs.NE cs.SDcited by 165

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Abstract (arXiv)

Current speech enhancement techniques operate on the spectral domain and/or exploit some higher-level feature. The majority of them tackle a limited number of noise conditions and rely on first-order statistics. To circumvent these issues, deep networks are being increasingly used, thanks to their ability to learn complex functions from large example sets. In this work, we propose the use of generative adversarial networks for speech enhancement. In contrast to current techniques, we operate at the waveform level, training the model end-to-end, and incorporate 28 speakers and 40 different noise conditions into the same model, such that model parameters are shared across them. We evaluate the proposed model using an independent, unseen test set with two speakers and 20 alternative noise conditions. The enhanced samples confirm the viability of the proposed model, and both objective and subjective evaluations confirm the effectiveness of it. With that, we open the exploration of generative architectures for speech enhancement, which may progressively incorporate further speech-centric design choices to improve their performance.

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  1. 2021SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codeccited by 756
  2. 2022Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation with Diffusion-based Generative Modelscited by 195
  3. 2022Conditional Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Speech Enhancementcited by 132
  4. 2021MetricGAN+: An Improved Version of MetricGAN for Speech Enhancementcited by 114
  5. 2022Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Models in the Complex STFT Domaincited by 102
  6. 2022Universal Speech Enhancement with Score-based Diffusioncited by 75
  7. 2023A Survey on Audio Diffusion Models: Text To Speech Synthesis and Enhancement in Generative AIcited by 68
  8. 2024Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attentioncited by 58
  9. 2021A Study on Speech Enhancement Based on Diffusion Probabilistic Modelcited by 52
  10. 2022CMGAN: Conformer-based Metric GAN for Speech Enhancementcited by 45
  11. 2023Separate Anything You Describecited by 43
  12. 2021TSTNN: Two-stage Transformer based Neural Network for Speech Enhancement in the Time Domaincited by 36
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  1. 2022Cold Diffusion for Speech Enhancementcited by 31
  2. 2021Unsupervised Speech Enhancement using Dynamical Variational Auto-Encoderscited by 28
  3. 2022Audio-Visual Speech Codecs: Rethinking Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement by Re-Synthesiscited by 24
  4. 2022CMGAN: Conformer-Based Metric-GAN for Monaural Speech Enhancementcited by 22
  5. 2022RemixIT: Continual self-training of speech enhancement models via bootstrapped remixingcited by 20
  6. 2025LLaSE-G1: Incentivizing Generalization Capability for LLaMA-based Speech Enhancementcited by 19
  7. 2021MetricGAN-U: Unsupervised speech enhancement/ dereverberation based only on noisy/ reverberated speechcited by 18
  8. 2021Dual-branch Attention-In-Attention Transformer for single-channel speech enhancementcited by 18
  9. 2021Interactive Feature Fusion for End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognitioncited by 17
  10. 2022On loss functions and evaluation metrics for music source separationcited by 17
  11. 2021Unsupervised Noise Adaptive Speech Enhancement by Discriminator-Constrained Optimal Transportcited by 16
  12. 2021Catch-A-Waveform: Learning to Generate Audio from a Single Short Examplecited by 15
  13. 2023Target Speech Extraction with Conditional Diffusion Modelcited by 15
  14. 2022Diffiner: A Versatile Diffusion-based Generative Refiner for Speech Enhancementcited by 14
  15. 2021Sequential Randomized Smoothing for Adversarially Robust Speech Recognitioncited by 13
  16. 2022Speech Denoising in the Waveform Domain with Self-Attentioncited by 13
  17. 2022Generating Synthetic Clinical Data that Capture Class Imbalanced Distributions with Generative Adversarial Networks: Example using Antiretroviral Therapy for HIVcited by 12
  18. 2022SRTNet: Time Domain Speech Enhancement Via Stochastic Refinementcited by 12
  19. 2021Speech Emotion Recognition Using Quaternion Convolutional Neural Networkscited by 11
  20. 2021Restoring degraded speech via a modified diffusion modelcited by 10
  21. 2022Dual-Path Style Learning for End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognitioncited by 10
  22. 2023Gradient Remedy for Multi-Task Learning in End-to-End Noise-Robust Speech Recognitioncited by 10
  23. 2023Diffusion-Based Speech Enhancement with Joint Generative and Predictive Decoderscited by 10
  24. 2021An Investigation of End-to-End Models for Robust Speech Recognitioncited by 9
  25. 2021Partition-Guided GANscited by 9
  26. 2022Audio representations for deep learning in sound synthesis: A reviewcited by 9
  27. 2023Unsupervised Noise adaptation using Data Simulationcited by 9
  28. 2023Synthetic Health-related Longitudinal Data with Mixed-type Variables Generated using Diffusion Modelscited by 9
  29. 2023A Multi-dimensional Deep Structured State Space Approach to Speech Enhancement Using Small-footprint Modelscited by 9
  30. 2023Noise-aware Speech Enhancement using Diffusion Probabilistic Modelcited by 9
  31. 2024BSS-CFFMA: Cross-Domain Feature Fusion and Multi-Attention Speech Enhancement Network based on Self-Supervised Embeddingcited by 9
  32. 2022Music Separation Enhancement with Generative Modelingcited by 8
  33. 2022Adversarial Permutation Invariant Training for Universal Sound Separationcited by 8
  34. 2022SCP-GAN: Self-Correcting Discriminator Optimization for Training Consistency Preserving Metric GAN on Speech Enhancement Taskscited by 8
  35. 2024Apollo: Band-sequence Modeling for High-Quality Audio Restorationcited by 8
  36. 2024Diffusion-based Unsupervised Audio-visual Speech Enhancementcited by 8
  37. 2022FFC-SE: Fast Fourier Convolution for Speech Enhancementcited by 7
  38. 2023SE-Bridge: Speech Enhancement with Consistent Brownian Bridgecited by 7

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