DiTSE: High-Fidelity Generative Speech Enhancement via Latent Diffusion Transformers

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Main Authors: Guimarães, Heitor R., Su, Jiaqi, Kumar, Rithesh, Falk, Tiago H., Jin, Zeyu
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author Guimarães, Heitor R.
Su, Jiaqi
Kumar, Rithesh
Falk, Tiago H.
Jin, Zeyu
author_facet Guimarães, Heitor R.
Su, Jiaqi
Kumar, Rithesh
Falk, Tiago H.
Jin, Zeyu
contents Real-world speech recordings suffer from degradations such as background noise and reverberation. Speech enhancement aims to mitigate these issues by generating clean high-fidelity signals. While recent generative approaches for speech enhancement have shown promising results, they still face two major challenges: (1) content hallucination, where plausible phonemes generated differ from the original utterance; and (2) inconsistency, failing to preserve speaker's identity and paralinguistic features from the input speech. In this work, we introduce DiTSE (Diffusion Transformer for Speech Enhancement), which addresses quality issues of degraded speech in full bandwidth. Our approach employs a latent diffusion transformer model together with robust conditioning features, effectively addressing these challenges while remaining computationally efficient. Experimental results from both subjective and objective evaluations demonstrate that DiTSE achieves state-of-the-art audio quality that, for the first time, matches real studio-quality audio from the DAPS dataset. Furthermore, DiTSE significantly improves the preservation of speaker identity and content fidelity, reducing hallucinations across datasets compared to state-of-the-art enhancers. Audio samples are available at: http://hguimaraes.me/DiTSE
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spellingShingle DiTSE: High-Fidelity Generative Speech Enhancement via Latent Diffusion Transformers
Guimarães, Heitor R.
Su, Jiaqi
Kumar, Rithesh
Falk, Tiago H.
Jin, Zeyu
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Real-world speech recordings suffer from degradations such as background noise and reverberation. Speech enhancement aims to mitigate these issues by generating clean high-fidelity signals. While recent generative approaches for speech enhancement have shown promising results, they still face two major challenges: (1) content hallucination, where plausible phonemes generated differ from the original utterance; and (2) inconsistency, failing to preserve speaker's identity and paralinguistic features from the input speech. In this work, we introduce DiTSE (Diffusion Transformer for Speech Enhancement), which addresses quality issues of degraded speech in full bandwidth. Our approach employs a latent diffusion transformer model together with robust conditioning features, effectively addressing these challenges while remaining computationally efficient. Experimental results from both subjective and objective evaluations demonstrate that DiTSE achieves state-of-the-art audio quality that, for the first time, matches real studio-quality audio from the DAPS dataset. Furthermore, DiTSE significantly improves the preservation of speaker identity and content fidelity, reducing hallucinations across datasets compared to state-of-the-art enhancers. Audio samples are available at: http://hguimaraes.me/DiTSE
title DiTSE: High-Fidelity Generative Speech Enhancement via Latent Diffusion Transformers
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09381