The development of hearing aids incorporates two aspects, namely, the audiological and the
technical point of view. The former focuses on items like the recruitment phenomenon, the …

The cocktail party problem, ie, tracing and recognizing the speech of a specific speaker
when multiple speakers talk simultaneously, is one of the critical problems yet to be solved …

Acoustic data provide scientific and engineering insights in fields ranging from biology and
communications to ocean and Earth science. We survey the recent advances and …

Speech enhancement and separation are core problems in audio signal processing, with
commercial applications in devices as diverse as mobile phones, conference call systems …

Speech enhancement and automatic speech recognition (ASR) are most often evaluated in
matched (or multi-condition) settings where the acoustic conditions of the training data …

The machine recognition of speech spoken at a distance from the microphones, known as
far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR), has received a significant increase in attention …

Noise is everywhere and in most applications that are related to audio and speech, such as
human-machine interfaces, hands-free communications, voice over IP (VoIP), hearing aids …

The ability to localize and track acoustic events is a fundamental prerequisite for equipping
machines with the ability to be aware of and engage with humans in their surrounding …

The problem of noise reduction has attracted a considerable amount of research attention
over the past several decades. Among the numerous techniques that were developed, the …

As the most widely-used spatial filtering approach for multi-channel speech separation,
beamforming extracts the target speech signal arriving from a specific direction. An …