Our team takes first place in the Interspeech 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge

[jmvalin]

This is some of what I've been up to since joining AWS... My team and I participated in the Interspeech 2020 Deep Noise Suppression Challenge and got both the top spot in the non-real-time track, and the second spot in the real-time track. See the official Amazon Science blog post for more details on how it happened and how it's already shipping in Amazon Chime.

You can also listen to some samples, or read the papers:

• J.-M. Valin, U. Isik, N. Phansalkar, R. Giri, K. Helwani and A. Krishnaswamy, A Perceptually-Motivated Approach for Low-Complexity, Real-Time Enhancement of Fullband Speech, Accepted for INTERSPEECH 2020, arxiv:2008.04259.
• U. Isik, R. Giri, N. Phansalkar, J.-M. Valin, K. Helwani and A. Krishnaswamy, PoCoNet: Better Speech Enhancement with Frequency-Positional Embeddings, Semi-Supervised Conversational Data, and Biased Loss, Accepted for INTERSPEECH 2020, arxiv:2008.04470.