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HRTF Estimation using a Score-based Prior

Etienne Thuillier, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Eloi Moliner +2

We present a head-related transfer function (HRTF) estimation method which relies on a data-driven prior given by a score-based diffusion model. The HRTF is estimated in reverberan…

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Non-intrusive Speech Quality Assessment with Diffusion Models Trained on Clean Speech

Danilo de Oliveira, Julius Richter, Jean-Marie Lemercier +2

Diffusion models have found great success in generating high quality, natural samples of speech, but their potential for density estimation for speech has so far remained largely u…

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Investigating Training Objectives for Generative Speech Enhancement

Julius Richter, Danilo de Oliveira, Timo Gerkmann

Generative speech enhancement has recently shown promising advancements in improving speech quality in noisy environments. Multiple diffusion-based frameworks exist, each employing…

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Unsupervised Blind Joint Dereverberation and Room Acoustics Estimation with Diffusion Models

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Eloi Moliner, Simon Welker +2

This paper presents an unsupervised method for single-channel blind dereverberation and room impulse response (RIR) estimation, called BUDDy. The algorithm is rooted in Bayesian po…

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Robustness of Speech Separation Models for Similar-pitch Speakers

Bunlong Lay, Sebastian Zaczek, Kristina Tesch +1

Single-channel speech separation is a crucial task for enhancing speech recognition systems in multi-speaker environments. This paper investigates the robustness of state-of-the-ar…

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EARS: An Anechoic Fullband Speech Dataset Benchmarked for Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation

Julius Richter, Yi-Chiao Wu, Steven Krenn +5

We release the EARS (Expressive Anechoic Recordings of Speech) dataset, a high-quality speech dataset comprising 107 speakers from diverse backgrounds, totaling in 100 hours of cle…

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The PESQetarian: On the Relevance of Goodhart's Law for Speech Enhancement

Danilo de Oliveira, Simon Welker, Julius Richter +1

To obtain improved speech enhancement models, researchers often focus on increasing performance according to specific instrumental metrics. However, when the same metric is used in…

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BUDDy: Single-Channel Blind Unsupervised Dereverberation with Diffusion Models

Eloi Moliner, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Simon Welker +2

In this paper, we present an unsupervised single-channel method for joint blind dereverberation and room impulse response estimation, based on posterior sampling with diffusion mod…

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Diffusion Models for Audio Restoration

Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker +3

With the development of audio playback devices and fast data transmission, the demand for high sound quality is rising for both entertainment and communications. In this quest for…

eess.AS2024

An Analysis of the Variance of Diffusion-based Speech Enhancement

Bunlong Lay, Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion models proved to be powerful models for generative speech enhancement. In recent SGMSE+ approaches, training involves a stochastic differential equation for the diffusion…