Paper ID | SPE-52.5 | ||
Paper Title | A Time-domain Convolutional Recurrent Network for Packet Loss Concealment | ||
Authors | Ju Lin, Clemson University, United States; Yun Wang, Kaustubh Kalgaonkar, Gil Keren, Didi Zhang, Christian Fuegen, Facebook AI, United States | ||
Session | SPE-52: Speech Enhancement 8: Echo Cancellation and Other Tasks | ||
Location | Gather.Town | ||
Session Time: | Friday, 11 June, 13:00 - 13:45 | ||
Presentation Time: | Friday, 11 June, 13:00 - 13:45 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Speech Processing: [SPE-ENHA] Speech Enhancement and Separation | ||
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Abstract | Packet loss may affect a wide range of applications that use voice over IP (VoIP), e.g. video conferencing. In this paper, we investigate a time-domain convolutional recurrent network (CRN) for online packet loss concealment. CRN comprises a convolutional encoder-decoder structure and long short-term memory (LSTM) layers, which have been shown to be suitable for real-time speech enhancement applications. Moreover, we propose lookahead and masked training to further improve the performance of the CRN framework. Experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms a baseline system using only LSTM layers in terms of two objective metrics -- perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) and short-term objective intelligibility (STOI); it also reduces the word error rate (WER) more than the baseline when used as a frontend for speech recognition. The advantage of the proposed system is also verified in a subjective evaluation by the mean opinion score (MOS). |