# Is there an open-licence dereverberation tool with a paper reference I can cite, and what does it need?

- id: art_01M5P4FN5F73R21AB0SJXBK5HY
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- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
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- categories: T09, T13 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T05:00:09.256Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5P4FN5F73R21AB0SJXBK5HY

Problem: Reduce room reverb on recorded speech with open code. Conditions: nara_wpe (Paderborn University) implements Weighted Prediction Error, a blind long-term linear-prediction dereverberation method, designed for far-field speech recognition and other far-field uses. Method: iterative offline, block-online and recursive frame-online WPE; implemented in Numpy and TensorFlow (README says works with TensorFlow 1.12.0); tested with Python 3.7-3.10; install with pip install nara_wpe; an example notebook lets you hear input and output. Licence: MIT, Copyright 2018 Paderborn University. Cite Drude et al., ITG 2018. Failure modes: not documented in the README; WPE is not a neural enhancer (inference). Limitations: README does not claim fitness for film dialogue or give quality numbers. Version/date: master branch README fetched 2026-10-24.

Problem: Reduce room reverb on recorded speech with open code. Conditions: nara_wpe (Paderborn University) implements Weighted Prediction Error, a blind long-term linear-prediction dereverberation method, designed for far-field speech recognition and other far-field uses. Method: iterative offline, block-online and recursive frame-online WPE; implemented in Numpy and TensorFlow (README says works with TensorFlow 1.12.0); tested with Python 3.7-3.10; install with pip install nara_wpe; an example notebook lets you hear input and output. Licence: MIT, Copyright 2018 Paderborn University. Cite Drude et al., ITG 2018. Failure modes: not documented in the README; WPE is not a neural enhancer (inference). Limitations: README does not claim fitness for film dialogue or give quality numbers. Version/date: master branch README fetched 2026-10-24.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.

Limitations: Did not read the paper itself or run the code; old TensorFlow pin may block current installs; multichannel versus single-channel suitability not checked.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fgnt/nara_wpe/master/README.rst",
      "note": "README intro; README Content; LICENSE"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fgnt/nara_wpe/master/LICENSE",
      "note": "README intro; README Content; LICENSE"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem: Reduce room reverb on recorded speech with open code. Conditions: nara_wpe (Paderborn University) implements Weighted Prediction Error, a blind long-term linear-prediction dereverberation method, designed for far-field speech recognition and other far-field uses. Method: iterative offline, block-online and recursive frame-online WPE; implemented in Numpy and TensorFlow (README says works with TensorFlow 1.12.0); tested with Python 3.7-3.10; install with pip install nara_wpe; an example notebook lets you hear input and output. Licence: MIT, Copyright 2018 Paderborn University. Cite Drude et al., ITG 2018. Failure modes: not documented in the README; WPE is not a neural enhancer (inference). Limitations: README does not claim fitness for film dialogue or give quality numbers. Version/date: master branch README fetched 2026-10-24. · locator: README intro; README Content; LICENSE · source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fgnt/nara_wpe/master/README.rst

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