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most citedSpeech Enhancement and Dereverberation with Diffusion-based Generative Models

257 citations · 257 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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eess.AS2026

A Fast Solver for Interpolating Stochastic Differential Equation Diffusion Models for Speech Restoration

Bunlong Lay, Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are a well-established class of diffusion models for unconditional image generation, while SGMSE+ is a well-established conditional diffusion…

eess.AS2026

Bone-conduction Guided Multimodal Speech Enhancement with Conditional Diffusion Models

Sina Khanagha, Bunlong Lay, Timo Gerkmann

Single-channel speech enhancement models face significant performance degradation in extremely noisy environments. While prior work has shown that complementary bone-conducted spee…

eess.SP2025

Real-Time Streamable Generative Speech Restoration with Flow Matching

Simon Welker, Bunlong Lay, Maris Hillemann +2

Diffusion-based generative models have greatly impacted the speech processing field in recent years, exhibiting high speech naturalness and spawning a new research direction. Their…

eess.AS2025

Diffusion Buffer for Online Generative Speech Enhancement

Bunlong Lay, Rostislav Makarov, Simon Welker +2

Online Speech Enhancement was mainly reserved for predictive models. A key advantage of these models is that for an incoming signal frame from a stream of data, the model is called…

eess.AS2025

Diffusion Buffer: Online Diffusion-based Speech Enhancement with Sub-Second Latency

Bunlong Lay, Rostislav Makarov, Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have been recently used for speech enhancement with remarkable success but are computationally expensive at inference time. T…

eess.AS2024

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…

eess.AS2024

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…

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…

eess.AS2023

Single and Few-step Diffusion for Generative Speech Enhancement

Bunlong Lay, Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter +1

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. Ho…

eess.AS2023

EMOCONV-DIFF: Diffusion-based Speech Emotion Conversion for Non-parallel and In-the-wild Data

Navin Raj Prabhu, Bunlong Lay, Simon Welker +2

Speech emotion conversion is the task of converting the expressed emotion of a spoken utterance to a target emotion while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. While…

eess.AS2023

Speech Signal Improvement Using Causal Generative Diffusion Models

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

In this paper, we present a causal speech signal improvement system that is designed to handle different types of distortions. The method is based on a generative diffusion model w…

eess.AS2023

Reducing the Prior Mismatch of Stochastic Differential Equations for Diffusion-based Speech Enhancement

Bunlong Lay, Simon Welker, Julius Richter +1

Recently, score-based generative models have been successfully employed for the task of speech enhancement. A stochastic differential equation is used to model the iterative forwar…

eess.AS2022★ 257 cited

Speech Enhancement and Dereverberation with Diffusion-based Generative Models

Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Jean-Marie Lemercier +2

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that…