Speech enhancement (SE) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-time processing involve improving the quality and intelligibility of speech signals on the fly, ensuring accurate transcription as the speech unfolds. SE eliminates unwanted backg...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jan 11, 2025
Integrating visual features has been proven effective for deep learning-based speech quality enhancement, particularly in highly noisy environments. However, these models may suffer from redundant information, resulting in performance deterioration w...
Cochlear implants (CIs) do not offer the same level of effectiveness in noisy environments as in quiet settings. Current single-microphone noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids and CIs only remove predictable, stationary noise, and are ineffecti...
Long short-term memory (LSTM) has been effectively used to represent sequential data in recent years. However, LSTM still struggles with capturing the long-term temporal dependencies. In this paper, we propose an hourglass-shaped LSTM that is able to...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Nov 21, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Although many speech enhancement (SE) algorithms have been proposed to promote speech perception in hearing-impaired patients, the conventional SE approaches that perform well under quiet and/or stationary noises fail under nonstationary n...
Almost half a billion people world-wide suffer from disabling hearing loss. While hearing aids can partially compensate for this, a large proportion of users struggle to understand speech in situations with background noise. Here, we present a deep l...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Aug 25, 2022
Bone-conducted microphone (BCM) senses vibrations from bones in the skull during speech to electrical audio signal. When transmitting speech signals, bone-conduction microphones (BCMs) capture speech signals based on the vibrations of the speaker's s...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
May 7, 2021
Dysarthria is a disorder that affects an individual's speech intelligibility due to the paralysis of muscles and organs involved in the articulation process. As the condition is often associated with physically debilitating disabilities, not only do ...
Technology that translates neural activity into speech would be transformative for people who are unable to communicate as a result of neurological impairments. Decoding speech from neural activity is challenging because speaking requires very precis...
International journal of speech-language pathology
Nov 8, 2018
: This research aimed to automatically predict intelligible speaking rate for individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) based on speech acoustic and articulatory samples. Twelve participants with ALS and two normal subjects produced a tot...
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