Perceptually-motivated Environment-specific Speech Enhancement

Jiaqi Su, Adam Finkelstein, Zeyu Jin

Abstract: This paper introduces a deep learning approach to enhance speech recordings made in a specific environment. A single neural network learns to ameliorate several types of recording artifacts, including noise, reverberation, and non-linear equalization. The method relies on a new perceptual loss function that combines adversarial loss with spectrogram features. Both subjective and objective evaluations show that the proposed approach improves on state-of-the-art baseline methods.