Analysing Diffusion-based Generative Approaches versus Discriminative Approaches for Speech Restoration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02397v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:06:14 GMT
• Title: Analysing Diffusion-based Generative Approaches versus Discriminative Approaches for Speech Restoration
• Authors: Jean-Marie Lemercier, Julius Richter, Simon Welker, Timo Gerkmann
• Abstract summary: We systematically compare the performance of generative diffusion models and discriminative approaches on different speech restoration tasks. We observe that the generative approach performs globally better than its discriminative counterpart on all tasks.
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• Abstract: Diffusion-based generative models have had a high impact on the computer vision and speech processing communities these past years. Besides data generation tasks, they have also been employed for data restoration tasks like speech enhancement and dereverberation. While discriminative models have traditionally been argued to be more powerful e.g. for speech enhancement, generative diffusion approaches have recently been shown to narrow this performance gap considerably. In this paper, we systematically compare the performance of generative diffusion models and discriminative approaches on different speech restoration tasks. For this, we extend our prior contributions on diffusion-based speech enhancement in the complex time-frequency domain to the task of bandwith extension. We then compare it to a discriminatively trained neural network with the same network architecture on three restoration tasks, namely speech denoising, dereverberation and bandwidth extension. We observe that the generative approach performs globally better than its discriminative counterpart on all tasks, with the strongest benefit for non-additive distortion models, like in dereverberation and bandwidth extension. Code and audio examples can be found online at https://uhh.de/inf-sp-sgmsemultitask

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