7 papers · 1 filter
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…
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…
Non-Causal to Causal SSL-Supported Transfer Learning: Towards a High-Performance Low-Latency Speech Vocoder
Renzheng Shi, Andreas Bär, Marvin Sach +2
Recently, BigVGAN has emerged as high-performance speech vocoder. Its sequence-to-sequence-based synthesis, however, prohibits usage in low-latency conversational applications. Our…