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Design an audio denoising / speech enhancement system.

Cleaning noise out of speech is a tradeoff between how good it sounds and how fast it runs. A strong answer picks spectrogram masking versus waveform models against a real-time budget, names PESQ and STOI as the metrics, and is honest about the artifacts each approach introduces.

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Cleaning noise out of speech is a tradeoff between how good it sounds and how fast it runs. A strong answer picks spectrogram masking versus waveform models against a real-time budget, names PESQ and STOI as the metrics, and is honest about the artifacts each approach introduces.

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