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Towards Array-Invariant Speech Enhancement via Geometry-Aware Dynamic Convolution
Zhenglong Liu, Wangyou Zhang, Chenda Li +1
Multi-channel speech enhancement (SE) systems exhibit superior performance over single-channel methods but are constrained to fixed microphone array configurations. This restricts…
ESPnet3: Infrastructure for Scalable Speech and Audio Research in the Foundation Model Era
Masao Someki, Alexander Polok, Carlos Carvalho +14
Recent speech research involves increasingly large datasets, complex models, and diverse experimental workflows. However, existing frameworks require substantial engineering effort…
Representation-Regularized Convolutional Audio Transformer for Audio Understanding
Bing Han, Chushu Zhou, Yifan Yang +4
Bootstrap-based Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable progress in audio understanding. However, existing methods typically operate at a single level of granularity…
ICASSP 2026 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
Chenda Li, Wei Wang, Marvin Sach +8
The ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge advances the series by focusing on universal speech enhancement (SE) systems that handle diverse distortions, domains, and input conditions. This o…
MeanSE: Efficient Generative Speech Enhancement with Mean Flows
Jiahe Wang, Hongyu Wang, Wei Wang +5
Speech enhancement (SE) improves degraded speech's quality, with generative models like flow matching gaining attention for their outstanding perceptual quality. However, the flow-…
P.808 Multilingual Speech Enhancement Testing: Approach and Results of URGENT 2025 Challenge
Marvin Sach, Yihui Fu, Kohei Saijo +9
In speech quality estimation for speech enhancement (SE) systems, subjective listening tests so far are considered as the gold standard. This should be even more true considering t…
URGENT-PK: Perceptually-Aligned Ranking Model Designed for Speech Enhancement Competition
Jiahe Wang, Chenda Li, Wei Wang +11
The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) is fundamental to speech quality assessment. However, its acquisition requires significant human annotation. Although deep neural network approaches, s…
Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Samuele Cornell +10
The URGENT 2024 Challenge aims to foster speech enhancement (SE) techniques with great universality, robustness, and generalizability, featuring a broader task definition, large-sc…
Interspeech 2025 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
Kohei Saijo, Wangyou Zhang, Samuele Cornell +9
There has been a growing effort to develop universal speech enhancement (SE) to handle inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. The URGENT Challenge series…
Scale This, Not That: Investigating Key Dataset Attributes for Efficient Speech Enhancement Scaling
Leying Zhang, Wangyou Zhang, Chenda Li +1
Recent speech enhancement models have shown impressive performance gains by scaling up model complexity and training data. However, the impact of dataset variability (e.g. text, la…
URGENT Challenge: Universality, Robustness, and Generalizability For Speech Enhancement
Wangyou Zhang, Robin Scheibler, Kohei Saijo +9
The last decade has witnessed significant advancements in deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE). However, most existing SE research has limitations on the coverage of SE sub-…
Beyond Performance Plateaus: A Comprehensive Study on Scalability in Speech Enhancement
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Jee-weon Jung +3
Deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) models have achieved impressive performance in the past decade. Numerous advanced architectures have been designed to deliver state-of-t…
Improving Design of Input Condition Invariant Speech Enhancement
Wangyou Zhang, Jee-weon Jung, Shinji Watanabe +1
Building a single universal speech enhancement (SE) system that can handle arbitrary input is a demanded but underexplored research topic. Towards this ultimate goal, one direction…
Toward Universal Speech Enhancement for Diverse Input Conditions
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Zhong-Qiu Wang +2
The past decade has witnessed substantial growth of data-driven speech enhancement (SE) techniques thanks to deep learning. While existing approaches have shown impressive performa…
Weakly-Supervised Speech Pre-training: A Case Study on Target Speech Recognition
Wangyou Zhang, Yanmin Qian
Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech pre-training has attracted much attention for its capability of extracting rich representations learned from massive unlabeled data. On…
ESPnet-SE++: Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition, Translation, and Understanding
Yen-Ju Lu, Xuankai Chang, Chenda Li +10
This paper presents recent progress on integrating speech separation and enhancement (SSE) into the ESPnet toolkit. Compared with the previous ESPnet-SE work, numerous features hav…
Separating Long-Form Speech with Group-Wise Permutation Invariant Training
Wangyou Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Naoyuki Kanda +8
Multi-talker conversational speech processing has drawn many interests for various applications such as meeting transcription. Speech separation is often required to handle overlap…
Closing the Gap Between Time-Domain Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement on Real and Simulation Conditions
Wangyou Zhang, Jing Shi, Chenda Li +2
The deep learning based time-domain models, e.g. Conv-TasNet, have shown great potential in both single-channel and multi-channel speech enhancement. However, many experiments on t…