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Background: Active noise cancellation has been a subject of research for decades. Traditional techniques, like the Fast Fourier Transform, have limitations in certain scenarios. This research explores the use of deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Brandon Colelough , Andrew Zheng

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

Frame-online speech enhancement systems in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain usually have an algorithmic latency equal to the window size due to the use of overlap-add in the inverse STFT (iSTFT). This algorithmic latency…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

Deep learning methods have brought substantial advancements in speech separation (SS). Nevertheless, it remains challenging to deploy deep-learning-based models on edge devices. Thus, identifying an effective way to compress these large…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Chao-I Tuan , Yuan-Kuei Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Yu Tsao

This work proposes a multichannel speech separation method with narrow-band Conformer (named NBC). The network is trained to learn to automatically exploit narrow-band speech separation information, such as spatial vector clustering of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

The design of acoustic features is important for speech separation. It can be roughly categorized into three classes: handcrafted, parameterized, and learnable features. Among them, learnable features, which are trained with separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Wenbo Zhu , Mou Wang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Susanto Rahardja

Deep learning approaches have recently achieved impressive performance on both audio source separation and sound classification. Most audio source separation approaches focus only on separating sources belonging to a restricted domain of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Efthymios Tzinis , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey , Aren Jansen , Daniel P. W. Ellis

Speech separation has been very successful with deep learning techniques. Substantial effort has been reported based on approaches over spectrogram, which is well known as the standard time-and-frequency cross-domain representation for…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Gene-Ping Yang , Chao-I Tuan , Hung-Yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

This paper addresses the problem of under-determinded speech source separation from multichannel microphone singals, i.e. the convolutive mixtures of multiple sources. The time-domain signals are first transformed to the short-time Fourier…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xiaofei Li , Laurent Girin , Radu Horaud

Single-channel, speaker-independent speech separation methods have recently seen great progress. However, the accuracy, latency, and computational cost of such methods remain insufficient. The majority of the previous methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is used as the front end of many popular successful monaural speech separation methods, such as deep clustering (DPCL), permutation invariant training (PIT) and their various variants. Since the frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Ziqiang Shi , Huibin Lin , Liu Liu , Rujie Liu , Jiqing Han

Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Sameeksha Katoch , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

The current monaural state of the art tools for speech separation relies on supervised learning. This means that they must deal with permutation problem, they are impacted by the mismatch on the number of speakers used in training and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Peter Ochieng

The field of speech separation, addressing the "cocktail party problem", has seen revolutionary advances with DNNs. Speech separation enhances clarity in complex acoustic environments and serves as crucial pre-processing for speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kai Li , Guo Chen , Wendi Sang , Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Shuai Wang , Shulin He , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Andong Li , Zhiyong Wu , Xiaolin Hu

This paper proposes a universal sound separation (USS) method capable of handling untrained sampling frequencies (SFs). The USS aims at separating arbitrary sources of different types and can be the key technique to realize a source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Tomohiko Nakamura , Kohei Yatabe

Universal sound separation (USS) is a task to separate arbitrary sounds from an audio mixture. Existing USS systems are capable of separating arbitrary sources, given a few examples of the target sources as queries. However, separating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Yuzhuo Liu , Xubo Liu , Yan Zhao , Yuanyuan Wang , Rui Xia , Pingchuan Tain , Yuxuan Wang

Speech separation has recently made significant progress thanks to the fine-grained vision used in time-domain methods. However, several studies have shown that adopting Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) for feature extraction could be…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Kuan-Hsun Ho , Jeih-weih Hung , Berlin Chen

Recent progress in separating the speech signals from multiple overlapping speakers using a single audio channel has brought us closer to solving the cocktail party problem. However, most studies in this area use a constrained problem…

Speech separation involves extracting an individual speaker's voice from a multi-speaker audio signal. The increasing complexity of real-world environments, where multiple speakers might converse simultaneously, underscores the importance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Renana Opochinsky , Mordehay Moradi , Sharon Gannot

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur