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CleanUNet 2: A Hybrid Speech Denoising Model on Waveform and Spectrogram

12 Sep 2023arXiv:2309.05975archive 2025-07-28

Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Ambrish Dantrey, Bryan Catanzaro

In this work, we present CleanUNet 2, a speech denoising model that combines the advantages of waveform denoiser and spectrogram denoiser and achieves the best of both worlds. CleanUNet 2 uses a two-stage framework inspired by popular speech synthesis methods that consist of a waveform model and a spectrogram model. Specifically, CleanUNet 2 builds upon CleanUNet, the state-of-the-art waveform denoiser, and further boosts its performance by taking predicted spectrograms from a spectrogram denoiser as the input. We demonstrate that CleanUNet 2 outperforms previous methods in terms of various objective and subjective evaluations.

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DenoisingSpeech DenoisingSpeech EnhancementSpeech Synthesis

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Speech Enhancement Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge CleanUNet-2 PESQ-NB 3.658 #12 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge CleanUNet-2 PESQ-WB 3.262 #12 of 36 Archive leaderboard report

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