Synthetic Wave-geometric Impulse Responses For Improved Speech Dereverberation

Abstract

We present a novel approach to improve the performance of learning-based speech dereverberation using accurate synthetic datasets. Our approach is designed to recover the reverb-free signal from a reverberant speech signal. We show that accurately simulating the low-frequency components of Room Impulse Responses (RIRs) is important to achieving good dereverberation. We use the GWA dataset that consists of synthetic RIRs generated in a hybrid fashion: an accurate wave-based solver is used to simulate the lower frequencies and geometric ray tracing methods simulate the higher frequencies. We demonstrate that speech dereverberation models trained on hybrid synthetic RIRs outperform models trained on RIRs generated by prior geometric ray tracing methods on four real-world RIR datasets.

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