RELAXED INSTANCE FREQUENCY NORMALIZATION FOR NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED AUDIO PROCESSING

Techniques and apparatus for training a neural network to classify audio into one of a plurality of categories and using such a trained neural network. An example method generally includes receiving a data set including a plurality of audio samples. A relaxed feature-normalized data set is generated by normalizing each audio sample of the plurality of audio samples. A neural network is trained to classify audio into one of a plurality of categories based on the relaxed feature-normalized data set, and the trained neural network is deployed.