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- Haohan Shi
(Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Here East, London E20 3BS, UK)
- Xiyu Shi
(Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Here East, London E20 3BS, UK)
- Safak Dogan
(Institute for Digital Technologies, Loughborough University London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Here East, London E20 3BS, UK)
Abstract
Audio inpainting plays an important role in addressing incomplete, damaged, or missing audio signals, contributing to improved quality of service and overall user experience in multimedia communications over the Internet and mobile networks. This paper presents an innovative solution for speech inpainting using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, i.e., a restoring task where the missing parts of speech signals are recovered from the previous information in the time domain. The lost or corrupted speech signals are also referred to as gaps. We regard the speech inpainting task as a time-series prediction problem in this research work. To address this problem, we designed multi-layer LSTM networks and trained them on different speech datasets. Our study aims to investigate the inpainting performance of the proposed models on different datasets and with varying LSTM layers and explore the effect of multi-layer LSTM networks on the prediction of speech samples in terms of perceived audio quality. The inpainted speech quality is evaluated through the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and a frequency analysis of the spectrogram. Our proposed multi-layer LSTM models are able to restore up to 1 s of gaps with high perceptual audio quality using the features captured from the time domain only. Specifically, for gap lengths under 500 ms, the MOS can reach up to 3~4, and for gap lengths ranging between 500 ms and 1 s, the MOS can reach up to 2~3. In the time domain, the proposed models can proficiently restore the envelope and trend of lost speech signals. In the frequency domain, the proposed models can restore spectrogram blocks with higher similarity to the original signals at frequencies less than 2.0 kHz and comparatively lower similarity at frequencies in the range of 2.0 kHz~8.0 kHz.
Suggested Citation
Haohan Shi & Xiyu Shi & Safak Dogan, 2024.
"Speech Inpainting Based on Multi-Layer Long Short-Term Memory Networks,"
Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-20, February.
Handle:
RePEc:gam:jftint:v:16:y:2024:i:2:p:63-:d:1340481
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