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sepformer-wham16k-enhancement

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sepformer-wham16k-enhancement is an open-weight audio or speech model from speechbrain. sepformer-wham16k-enhancement (BF16) weighs 113 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • sepformer-wham16k-enhancement is an audio-to-audio model developed by SpeechBrain for speech enhancement and denoising.
  • It uses a SepFormer architecture pretrained on the WHAM! dataset with a 16k sampling frequency and supports English.
  • The model is licensed under Apache-2.0 and reports a test-set SI-SNR of 14.3 dB.

Summary of the speechbrain/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byspeechbrain
Released2022-06-30
VRAM113 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for sepformer-wham16k-enhancement (BF16)

113 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 sepformer-wham16k-enhancement

Read the model card

This repository provides all the necessary tools to perform speech enhancement (denoising) with a SepFormer model, implemented with SpeechBrain, and pretrained on WHAM! dataset with 16k sampling frequency, which is basically a version of WSJ0-Mix dataset with environmental noise and reverberation in 8k. For a better experience we encourage you to learn more about SpeechBrain. The given model performance is 14.3 dB SI-SNR on the test set of WHAM! dataset.

ReleaseTest-Set SI-SNRTest-Set PESQ
06-30-2213.82.20

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.

Perform speech enhancement on your own audio file

from speechbrain.pretrained import SepformerSeparation as separator
import torchaudio

model = separator.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement", savedir='pretrained_models/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement')

# for custom file, change path
est_sources = model.separate_file(path='speechbrain/sepformer-wham16k-enhancement/example_wham16k.wav')

torchaudio.save("enhanced_wham16k.wav", est_sources[:, :, 0].detach().cpu(), 16000)

Inference on GPU

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

Training

The training script is currently being worked on an ongoing pull-request.

We will update the model card as soon as the PR is merged.

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 SpeechBrain
@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}
}
Referencing SepFormer
@inproceedings{subakan2021attention,
      title={Attention is All You Need in Speech Separation},
      author={Cem Subakan and Mirco Ravanelli and Samuele Cornell and Mirko Bronzi and Jianyuan Zhong},
      year={2021},
      booktitle={ICASSP 2021}
}

@article{subakan2023exploring,
  author={Subakan, Cem and Ravanelli, Mirco and Cornell, Samuele and Grondin, François and Bronzi, Mirko},
  journal={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
  title={Exploring Self-Attention Mechanisms for Speech Separation},
  year={2023},
  volume={31},
  pages={2169-2180},
}

About SpeechBrain

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

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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