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| author | Feng, Fuyuan Xu, Longting Das, Rohan Kumar |
| author_facet | Feng, Fuyuan Xu, Longting Das, Rohan Kumar |
| contents | Speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve the clarity, intelligibility, and quality of speech signals for various speech enabled applications. However, air-conducted (AC) speech is highly susceptible to ambient noise, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and non-stationary noise environments. Incorporating multi-modal information has shown promise in enhancing speech in such challenging scenarios. Electromyography (EMG) signals, which capture muscle activity during speech production, offer noise-resistant properties beneficial for SE in adverse conditions. Most previous EMG-based SE methods required 35 EMG channels, limiting their practicality. To address this, we propose a novel method that considers only 8-channel EMG signals with acoustic signals using a modified SEMamba network with added cross-modality modules. Our experiments demonstrate substantial improvements in speech quality and intelligibility over traditional approaches, especially in extremely low SNR settings. Notably, compared to the SE (AC) approach, our method achieves a significant PESQ gain of 0.235 under matched low SNR conditions and 0.527 under mismatched conditions, highlighting its robustness. |
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| spellingShingle | Multi-modal Speech Enhancement with Limited Electromyography Channels Feng, Fuyuan Xu, Longting Das, Rohan Kumar Audio and Speech Processing Sound Speech enhancement (SE) aims to improve the clarity, intelligibility, and quality of speech signals for various speech enabled applications. However, air-conducted (AC) speech is highly susceptible to ambient noise, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and non-stationary noise environments. Incorporating multi-modal information has shown promise in enhancing speech in such challenging scenarios. Electromyography (EMG) signals, which capture muscle activity during speech production, offer noise-resistant properties beneficial for SE in adverse conditions. Most previous EMG-based SE methods required 35 EMG channels, limiting their practicality. To address this, we propose a novel method that considers only 8-channel EMG signals with acoustic signals using a modified SEMamba network with added cross-modality modules. Our experiments demonstrate substantial improvements in speech quality and intelligibility over traditional approaches, especially in extremely low SNR settings. Notably, compared to the SE (AC) approach, our method achieves a significant PESQ gain of 0.235 under matched low SNR conditions and 0.527 under mismatched conditions, highlighting its robustness. |
| title | Multi-modal Speech Enhancement with Limited Electromyography Channels |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06530 |