Frontiers

Effects of low-latency deep-learning-based noise reduction on speech intelligibility for normal hearing, hearing-impaired listeners and cochlear implant users

Objective: To investigate the effects of low-latency deep-learning-based noise reduction on measured and predicted speech intelligibility in noise in normal-hearing (NH) listeners, hearing-impaired ...
Edutopia

Using Text-to-Speech Technology to Support All Students

In the arena of digital accessibility tools, the embedded screen reader—also known as a text-to-speech (TTS) tool—is among the most commonly used features in secondary education. While this feature ...
GitHub

Up-Cycle-SENet: Unpaired Phase-aware Speech Enhancement Using Deep Complex Cycle Adversarial Networks

Speech enhancement (SE), which reconstructs intelligible speech by removing noise or interference from noisy speech, plays an important role in many speech applications. Due to the successful ...
Edutopia

Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract: Using the CPA Method in Upper Elementary Math

Four years ago, I was given a fantastic opportunity to be a math coach for a primary years program. But when I started, there was no framework to work within, no script to follow. I was starting from ...
C&EN

Posthandling Spectral Information Enhancement for Single Cell Raman Molecular Mapping Analysis

Department of Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin ...
marktechpost

This AI Paper Proposes a Novel Dual-Branch Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Unsupervised Speech Enhancement (SE)

Most learning-based speech enhancement pipelines depend on paired clean–noisy recordings, which are expensive or impossible to collect at scale in real-world conditions. Unsupervised routes like ...
The New York Times

Everyone’s a Free-Speech Hypocrite

Mr. Lukianoff is the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. If you’re a free-speech lawyer, you face a choice: Either expect to be disappointed by people ...
marktechpost

Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Islam, M.D., Shahnaz, C., Zhu, W.P. and Ahmad, M.O. (2018) Enhancement of Noisy Speech with Low Speech Distortion Based on Probabilistic Geometric Spectral Subtraction. arXiv ...

ABSTRACT: Underwater radiated noise emitted by ships threatens marine ecosystems and impacts naval operations reliant on precise acoustic signatures. Measuring weak underwater radiated noise levels ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Improving the Evaluation of Weak Underwater Radiated Noise Levels Using Probabilistic Geometric Spectral Subtraction ()

Underwater radiated noise emitted by ships threatens marine ecosystems and impacts naval operations reliant on precise acoustic signatures. Measuring weak underwater radiated noise levels (URNLs) is ...
C&EN

A Novel Spectral Barcoding and Classification Approach for Complex Biological Samples Using Multiexcitation Raman Spectroscopy (MX-Raman)

School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ Southampton, U.K. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 ...