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Speech Denoising in the Waveform Domain with Self-Attention

15 Feb 2022arXiv:2202.07790archive 2025-07-28

Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Ambrish Dantrey, Bryan Catanzaro

In this work, we present CleanUNet, a causal speech denoising model on the raw waveform. The proposed model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture combined with several self-attention blocks to refine its bottleneck representations, which is crucial to obtain good results. The model is optimized through a set of losses defined over both waveform and multi-resolution spectrograms. The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art models in terms of denoised speech quality from various objective and subjective evaluation metrics. We release our code and models at https://github.com/nvidia/cleanunet.

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DecoderDenoisingSpeech DenoisingSpeech Enhancement

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Speech Enhancement Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge CleanUNet PESQ-NB 3.551 #15 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Enhancement Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge CleanUNet PESQ-WB 3.146 #15 of 36 Archive leaderboard report

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