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This paper introduces a novel framework for open-set speaker identification in household environments, playing a crucial role in facilitating seamless human-computer interactions. Addressing the limitations of current speaker models and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Zhiyong Chen , Zhiqi Ai , Xinnuo Li , Shugong Xu

A novel model was recently proposed by Schulze-Forster et al. in [1] for unsupervised music source separation. This model allows to tackle some of the major shortcomings of existing source separation frameworks. Specifically, it eliminates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Gael Richard , Pierre Chouteau , Bernardo Torres

Single-channel audio separation aims to separate individual sources from a single-channel mixture. Most existing methods rely on supervised learning with synthetically generated paired data. However, obtaining high-quality paired data in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Runwu Shi , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Rui Zhang , Nabeela Khan , Benjamin Yen , Takeshi Ashizawa , Kazuhiro Nakadai

We present Self-Remixing, a novel self-supervised speech separation method, which refines a pre-trained separation model in an unsupervised manner. The proposed method consists of a shuffler module and a solver module, and they grow…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Kohei Saijo , Tetsuji Ogawa

A new learning algorithm for speech separation networks is designed to explicitly reduce residual noise and artifacts in the separated signal in an unsupervised manner. Generative adversarial networks are known to be effective in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Kohei Saijo , Tetsuji Ogawa

This paper proposes reverberation as supervision (RAS), a novel unsupervised loss function for single-channel reverberant speech separation. Prior methods for unsupervised separation required the synthesis of mixtures of mixtures or assumed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Rohith Aralikatti , Christoph Boeddeker , Gordon Wichern , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Neural speech separation has made remarkable progress and its integration with automatic speech recognition (ASR) is an important direction towards realizing multi-speaker ASR. This work provides an insightful investigation of speech…

Accurate recognition of cocktail party speech containing overlapping speakers, noise and reverberation remains a highly challenging task to date. Motivated by the invariance of visual modality to acoustic signal corruption, an audio-visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Guinan Li , Jiajun Deng , Mengzhe Geng , Zengrui Jin , Tianzi Wang , Shujie Hu , Mingyu Cui , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Audio-visual automatic speech recognition is a promising approach to robust ASR under noisy conditions. However, up until recently it had been traditionally studied in isolation assuming the video of a single speaking face matches the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Otavio Braga , Olivier Siohan

A major drawback of supervised speech separation (SSep) systems is their reliance on synthetic data, leading to poor real-world generalization. Mixture invariant training (MixIT) was proposed as an unsupervised alternative that uses real…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Joonas Kalda , Clément Pagés , Ricard Marxer , Tanel Alumäe , Hervé Bredin

Permutation Invariant Training (PIT) has long been a stepping stone method for training speech separation model in handling the label ambiguity problem. With PIT selecting the minimum cost label assignments dynamically, very few studies…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Gene-Ping Yang , Szu-Lin Wu , Yao-Wen Mao , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

Overlapped speech is notoriously problematic for speaker diarization systems. Consequently, the use of speech separation has recently been proposed to improve their performance. Although promising, speech separation models struggle with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Elio Gruttadauria , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid

Despite the tremendous success of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with the introduction of deep learning, its performance is still unsatisfactory in many real-world multi-talker scenarios. Speaker separation excels in separating…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yufeng Yang , Hassan Taherian , Vahid Ahmadi Kalkhorani , DeLiang Wang

We investigate the effectiveness of convolutive prediction, a novel formulation of linear prediction for speech dereverberation, for speaker separation in reverberant conditions. The key idea is to first use a deep neural network (DNN) to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems severely degrades when multi-talker speech overlap occurs. In meeting environments, speech separation is typically performed to improve the robustness of ASR systems. Recently,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

We propose RemixIT, a simple and novel self-supervised training method for speech enhancement. The proposed method is based on a continuously self-training scheme that overcomes limitations from previous studies including assumptions for…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Yossi Adi , Vamsi K. Ithapu , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Recently, end-to-end models have become a popular approach as an alternative to traditional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The multi-speaker speech separation and recognition task is a central task in cocktail party…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuankai Chang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu , Shinji Watanabe

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have achieved a large inference computation reduction and comparable results with autoregressive (AR) models on various sequence to sequence tasks. However, there has been limited research aiming to explore…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Pengcheng Guo , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Lei Xie