HiFi-GAN: High-Fidelity Denoising and Dereverberation Based on Speech Deep Features in Adversarial Networks
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Real-world audio recordings are often degraded by factors such as noise, reverberation, and equalization distortion. This paper introduces HiFi-GAN, a deep learning method to transform recorded speech to sound as though it had been recorded in a studio. We use an end-to-end feed-forward WaveNet architecture, trained with multi-scale adversarial discriminators in both the time domain and the time-frequency domain. It relies on the deep feature matching losses of the discriminators to improve the perceptual quality of enhanced speech. The proposed model generalizes well to new speakers, new speech content, and new environments. It significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baseline methods in both objective and subjective experiments.
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- 2021MetricGAN+: An Improved Version of MetricGAN for Speech Enhancementcited by 114
- 2024Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attentioncited by 58
- 2021CDPAM: Contrastive learning for perceptual audio similaritycited by 42
- 2022SpecGrad: Diffusion Probabilistic Model based Neural Vocoder with Adaptive Noise Spectral Shapingcited by 37
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- 2021Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberationcited by 26
- 2022Audio-Visual Speech Codecs: Rethinking Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement by Re-Synthesiscited by 24
- 2022WaveFit: An Iterative and Non-autoregressive Neural Vocoder based on Fixed-Point Iterationcited by 20
- 2023AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimationcited by 20
- 2022CampNet: Context-Aware Mask Prediction for End-to-End Text-Based Speech Editingcited by 15
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberationcited by 15
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- 2022Hierarchical Diffusion Models for Singing Voice Neural Vocodercited by 10
- 2024Failing Forward: Improving Generative Error Correction for ASR with Synthetic Data and Retrieval Augmentationcited by 9
- 2022Music Separation Enhancement with Generative Modelingcited by 8
- 2024FINALLY: fast and universal speech enhancement with studio-like qualitycited by 7
- 2025Universal Speech Enhancement with Regression and Generative Mambacited by 7
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- 2022SkipConvGAN: Monaural Speech Dereverberation using Generative Adversarial Networks via Complex Time-Frequency Maskingcited by 6
- 2024Codecfake: An Initial Dataset for Detecting LLM-based Deepfake Audiocited by 5
- 2022Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberationcited by 3
- 2022Deep neural network techniques for monaural speech enhancement: state of the art analysiscited by 3
- 2022Blind Restoration of Real-World Audio by 1D Operational GANscited by 3
- 2024Improving Generalization of Speech Separation in Real-World Scenarios: Strategies in Simulation, Optimization, and Evaluationcited by 3
- 2021UniTTS: Residual Learning of Unified Embedding Space for Speech Style Controlcited by 1
- 2022Phase Continuity: Learning Derivatives of Phase Spectrum for Speech Enhancementcited by 1
- 2022NeuralDPS: Neural Deterministic Plus Stochastic Model with Multiband Excitation for Noise-Controllable Waveform Generationcited by 1
- 2022Audio Denoising for Robust Audio Fingerprintingcited by 1
- 2023CORN: Co-Trained Full- And No-Reference Speech Quality Assessmentcited by 1
- 2023D4AM: A General Denoising Framework for Downstream Acoustic Modelscited by 1
- 2024LipGER: Visually-Conditioned Generative Error Correction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognitioncited by 1
- 2024Selective State Space Model for Monaural Speech Enhancementcited by 1
- 2025HiFi-Stream: Streaming Speech Enhancement with Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 1
- 2025Miipher-2: A Universal Speech Restoration Model for Million-Hour Scale Data Restorationcited by 1
- 2025Leveraging Discriminative Latent Representations for Conditioning GAN-Based Speech Enhancementcited by 1
- 2026A Cold Diffusion Approach for Percussive Dereverberationcited by 0
- 2026A Cold Diffusion Approach for Percussive Dereverberation11 May 2026
- 2025Leveraging Discriminative Latent Representations for Conditioning GAN-Based Speech Enhancement28 Aug 2025
- 2025Universal Speech Enhancement with Regression and Generative Mamba27 May 2025
- 2025Miipher-2: A Universal Speech Restoration Model for Million-Hour Scale Data Restoration7 May 2025
- 2025HiFi-Stream: Streaming Speech Enhancement with Generative Adversarial Networks21 Mar 2025
- 2024Selective State Space Model for Monaural Speech Enhancement9 Nov 2024
- 2024Failing Forward: Improving Generative Error Correction for ASR with Synthetic Data and Retrieval Augmentation17 Oct 2024
- 2024FINALLY: fast and universal speech enhancement with studio-like quality8 Oct 2024
- 2024Improving Generalization of Speech Separation in Real-World Scenarios: Strategies in Simulation, Optimization, and Evaluation28 Aug 2024
- 2024Codecfake: An Initial Dataset for Detecting LLM-based Deepfake Audio12 Jun 2024
- 2024LipGER: Visually-Conditioned Generative Error Correction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition6 Jun 2024
- 2024Mamba in Speech: Towards an Alternative to Self-Attention21 May 2024
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- 2023AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation30 Nov 2023
- 2023D4AM: A General Denoising Framework for Downstream Acoustic Models28 Nov 2023
- 2023CORN: Co-Trained Full- And No-Reference Speech Quality Assessment13 Oct 2023
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberation23 Aug 2023
- 2022Blind Restoration of Real-World Audio by 1D Operational GANs30 Dec 2022
- 2022Audio Denoising for Robust Audio Fingerprinting21 Dec 2022
- 2022Deep neural network techniques for monaural speech enhancement: state of the art analysis1 Dec 2022
- 2022SkipConvGAN: Monaural Speech Dereverberation using Generative Adversarial Networks via Complex Time-Frequency Masking22 Nov 2022
- 2022Hierarchical Diffusion Models for Singing Voice Neural Vocoder14 Oct 2022
- 2022Pre-Avatar: An Automatic Presentation Generation Framework Leveraging Talking Avatar13 Oct 2022
- 2022WaveFit: An Iterative and Non-autoregressive Neural Vocoder based on Fixed-Point Iteration3 Oct 2022
- 2022Music Separation Enhancement with Generative Modeling26 Aug 2022
- 2022Utterance Weighted Multi-Dilation Temporal Convolutional Networks for Monaural Speech Dereverberation17 May 2022
- 2022Music Enhancement via Image Translation and Vocoding28 Apr 2022
- 2022Audio-Visual Speech Codecs: Rethinking Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement by Re-Synthesis31 Mar 2022
- 2022SpecGrad: Diffusion Probabilistic Model based Neural Vocoder with Adaptive Noise Spectral Shaping31 Mar 2022
- 2022NeuralDPS: Neural Deterministic Plus Stochastic Model with Multiband Excitation for Noise-Controllable Waveform Generation5 Mar 2022
- 2022Phase Continuity: Learning Derivatives of Phase Spectrum for Speech Enhancement24 Feb 2022
- 2022CampNet: Context-Aware Mask Prediction for End-to-End Text-Based Speech Editing21 Feb 2022
- 2021UniTTS: Residual Learning of Unified Embedding Space for Speech Style Control21 Jun 2021
- 2021Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberation14 Jun 2021
- 2021Restoring degraded speech via a modified diffusion model22 Apr 2021
- 2021MetricGAN+: An Improved Version of MetricGAN for Speech Enhancement8 Apr 2021
- 2021Context-Aware Prosody Correction for Text-Based Speech Editing16 Feb 2021
- 2021CDPAM: Contrastive learning for perceptual audio similarity9 Feb 2021
- 2021High Fidelity Speech Regeneration with Application to Speech Enhancement31 Jan 2021
- 2022SpecGrad: Diffusion Probabilistic Model based Neural Vocoder with Adaptive Noise Spectral Shapingcited by 37
- 2024MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Modelscited by 32
- 2022WaveFit: An Iterative and Non-autoregressive Neural Vocoder based on Fixed-Point Iterationcited by 20
- 2021Restoring degraded speech via a modified diffusion modelcited by 10
- 2022Hierarchical Diffusion Models for Singing Voice Neural Vocodercited by 10
- 2025Leveraging Discriminative Latent Representations for Conditioning GAN-Based Speech Enhancementcited by 1
- 2025Leveraging Discriminative Latent Representations for Conditioning GAN-Based Speech Enhancement28 Aug 2025
- 2024MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models9 Feb 2024
- 2022Hierarchical Diffusion Models for Singing Voice Neural Vocoder14 Oct 2022
- 2022WaveFit: An Iterative and Non-autoregressive Neural Vocoder based on Fixed-Point Iteration3 Oct 2022
- 2022SpecGrad: Diffusion Probabilistic Model based Neural Vocoder with Adaptive Noise Spectral Shaping31 Mar 2022
- 2021Restoring degraded speech via a modified diffusion model22 Apr 2021
- 2021MetricGAN+: An Improved Version of MetricGAN for Speech Enhancementcited by 114
- 2021CDPAM: Contrastive learning for perceptual audio similaritycited by 42
- 2024The Codecfake Dataset and Countermeasures for the Universally Detection of Deepfake Audiocited by 31
- 2021Learning Audio-Visual Dereverberationcited by 26
- 2022Audio-Visual Speech Codecs: Rethinking Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement by Re-Synthesiscited by 24
- 2023AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimationcited by 20
- 2022CampNet: Context-Aware Mask Prediction for End-to-End Text-Based Speech Editingcited by 15
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberationcited by 15
- 2021Context-Aware Prosody Correction for Text-Based Speech Editingcited by 13
- 2022Music Enhancement via Image Translation and Vocodingcited by 11
- 2021High Fidelity Speech Regeneration with Application to Speech Enhancementcited by 10
- 2022Music Separation Enhancement with Generative Modelingcited by 8
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- 2025HiFi-Stream: Streaming Speech Enhancement with Generative Adversarial Networks21 Mar 2025
- 2024FINALLY: fast and universal speech enhancement with studio-like quality8 Oct 2024
- 2024Improving Generalization of Speech Separation in Real-World Scenarios: Strategies in Simulation, Optimization, and Evaluation28 Aug 2024
- 2024Codecfake: An Initial Dataset for Detecting LLM-based Deepfake Audio12 Jun 2024
- 2024LipGER: Visually-Conditioned Generative Error Correction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition6 Jun 2024
- 2024The Codecfake Dataset and Countermeasures for the Universally Detection of Deepfake Audio8 May 2024
- 2023AV-RIR: Audio-Visual Room Impulse Response Estimation30 Nov 2023
- 2023D4AM: A General Denoising Framework for Downstream Acoustic Models28 Nov 2023
- 2023CORN: Co-Trained Full- And No-Reference Speech Quality Assessment13 Oct 2023
- 2023AdVerb: Visually Guided Audio Dereverberation23 Aug 2023
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