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metricgan-plus-voicebank

Audio speechbrain Audio→audio 1 build Open weights 16k dl/mo

metricgan-plus-voicebank is an open-weight audio or speech model from speechbrain. metricgan-plus-voicebank (BF16) weighs 8 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • metricgan-plus-voicebank is an audio-to-audio model developed by speechbrain for speech enhancement.
  • It operates on single-channel recordings sampled at 16kHz and supports the English language.
  • The model is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the speechbrain/metricgan-plus-voicebank model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byspeechbrain
Released2022-03-02
VRAM8 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for metricgan-plus-voicebank (BF16)

8 MBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What speechbrain says about metricgan-plus-voicebank

Read the model card

This repository provides all the necessary tools to perform enhancement with SpeechBrain. For a better experience we encourage you to learn more about SpeechBrain. The model performance is:

ReleaseTest PESQTest STOI
21-04-273.1593.0

Install SpeechBrain

First of all, please install SpeechBrain with the following command:

pip install speechbrain

Please notice that we encourage you to read our tutorials and learn more about SpeechBrain.

Pretrained Usage

To use the mimic-loss-trained model for enhancement, use the following simple code:

import torch
import torchaudio
from speechbrain.inference.enhancement import SpectralMaskEnhancement

enhance_model = SpectralMaskEnhancement.from_hparams(
    source="speechbrain/metricgan-plus-voicebank",
    savedir="pretrained_models/metricgan-plus-voicebank",
)

# Load and add fake batch dimension
noisy = enhance_model.load_audio(
    "speechbrain/metricgan-plus-voicebank/example.wav"
).unsqueeze(0)

# Add relative length tensor
enhanced = enhance_model.enhance_batch(noisy, lengths=torch.tensor([1.]))

# Saving enhanced signal on disk
torchaudio.save('enhanced.wav', enhanced.cpu(), 16000)

The system is trained with recordings sampled at 16kHz (single channel). The code will automatically normalize your audio (i.e., resampling + mono channel selection) when calling enhance_file if needed. Make sure your input tensor is compliant with the expected sampling rate if you use enhance_batch as in the example.

Inference on GPU

To perform inference on the GPU, add run_opts={"device":"cuda"} when calling the from_hparams method.

Training

The model was trained with SpeechBrain (d0accc8). To train it from scratch follows these steps:

  1. Clone SpeechBrain:
git clone https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
  1. Install it:
cd speechbrain
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
  1. Run Training:
cd  recipes/Voicebank/enhance/MetricGAN
python train.py hparams/train.yaml --data_folder=your_data_folder

You can find our training results (models, logs, etc) here.

Limitations

The SpeechBrain team does not provide any warranty on the performance achieved by this model when used on other datasets.

Referencing MetricGAN+

If you find MetricGAN+ useful, please cite:

@article{fu2021metricgan+,
  title={MetricGAN+: An Improved Version of MetricGAN for Speech Enhancement},
  author={Fu, Szu-Wei and Yu, Cheng and Hsieh, Tsun-An and Plantinga, Peter and Ravanelli, Mirco and Lu, Xugang and Tsao, Yu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03538},
  year={2021}
}

About SpeechBrain

  • Website: https://speechbrain.github.io/
  • Code: https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/
  • HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/speechbrain/

Citing SpeechBrain

Please, cite SpeechBrain if you use it for your research or business.

@misc{speechbrain,
  title={{SpeechBrain}: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit},
  author={Mirco Ravanelli and Titouan Parcollet and Peter Plantinga and Aku Rouhe and Samuele Cornell and Loren Lugosch and Cem Subakan and Nauman Dawalatabad and Abdelwahab Heba and Jianyuan Zhong and Ju-Chieh Chou and Sung-Lin Yeh and Szu-Wei Fu and Chien-Feng Liao and Elena Rastorgueva and François Grondin and William Aris and Hwidong Na and Yan Gao and Renato De Mori and Yoshua Bengio},
  year={2021},
  eprint={2106.04624},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={eess.AS},
  note={arXiv:2106.04624}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.
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