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Leveraging additional speaker information to facilitate speech separation has received increasing attention in recent years. Recent research includes extracting target speech by using the target speaker's voice snippet and jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Cong Han , Yi Luo , Chenda Li , Tianyan Zhou , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shinji Watanabe , Marc Delcroix , Hakan Erdogan , John R. Hershey , Nima Mesgarani , Zhuo Chen

Although deep learning (DL) has achieved notable progress in speech enhancement (SE), further research is still required for a DL-based SE system to adapt effectively and efficiently to particular speakers. In this study, we propose a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Cheng Yu , Szu-Wei Fu , Tsun-An Hsieh , Yu Tsao , Mirco Ravanelli

Large Speech Language Models (LSLMs) typically operate at high token rates (tokens/s) to ensure acoustic fidelity, yet this results in sequence lengths that far exceed the underlying semantic content, incurring prohibitive inference costs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Bajian Xiang , Tingwei Guo , Xuan Chen , Yang Han

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Self-supervised learning (SSL) proficiency in speech-related tasks has driven research into utilizing discrete tokens for speech tasks like recognition and translation, which offer lower storage requirements and great potential to employ…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Yifan Yang , Feiyu Shen , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Kai Yu , Daniel Povey , Xie Chen

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Universal source separation targets at separating the audio sources of an arbitrary mix, removing the constraint to operate on a specific domain like speech or music. Yet, the potential of universal source separation is limited because most…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jordi Pons , Xiaoyu Liu , Santiago Pascual , Joan Serrà

Speech separation, the task of isolating multiple speech sources from a mixed audio signal, remains challenging in noisy environments. In this paper, we propose a generative correction method to enhance the output of a discriminative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Helin Wang , Jesus Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jiarui Hai , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Recently, there has been growing interest in multi-speaker speech recognition, where the utterances of multiple speakers are recognized from their mixture. Promising techniques have been proposed for this task, but earlier works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Hiroshi Seki , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux , John R. Hershey

Large-scale text-to-speech (TTS) systems are limited by the scarcity of clean, multilingual recordings. We introduce Sidon, a fast, open-source speech restoration model that converts noisy in-the-wild speech into studio-quality speech and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Yota Ueda , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Recently, speech separation (SS) task has achieved remarkable progress driven by deep learning technique. However, it is still challenging to separate target speech from noisy mixture, as the neural model is vulnerable to assign background…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zizheng Zhang , Chen Chen , Hsin-Hung Chen , Xiang Liu , Yuchen Hu , Eng Siong Chng

We present TokenSplit, a speech separation model that acts on discrete token sequences. The model is trained on multiple tasks simultaneously: separate and transcribe each speech source, and generate speech from text. The model operates on…

We address the problem of acoustic source separation in a deep learning framework we call "deep clustering." Rather than directly estimating signals or masking functions, we train a deep network to produce spectrogram embeddings that are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-19 John R. Hershey , Zhuo Chen , Jonathan Le Roux , Shinji Watanabe

Deep neural networks (DNN) techniques have become pervasive in domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. They have achieved great success in these domains in task such as machine translation and image generation. Due…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Peter Ochieng

Language-queried Audio Source Separation (LASS) enables open-vocabulary sound separation via natural language queries. While existing methods rely on task-specific training, we explore whether pretrained diffusion models, originally…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Geonyoung Lee , Geonhee Han , Paul Hongsuck Seo

Recent studies in neural network-based monaural speech separation (SS) have achieved a remarkable success thanks to increasing ability of long sequence modeling. However, they would degrade significantly when put under realistic noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Yuchen Hu , Chen Chen , Heqing Zou , Xionghu Zhong , Eng Siong Chng

We propose multi-microphone complex spectral mapping, a simple way of applying deep learning for time-varying non-linear beamforming, for speaker separation in reverberant conditions. We aim at both speaker separation and dereverberation.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Peidong Wang , DeLiang Wang

This paper examines the applicability in realistic scenarios of two deep learning based solutions to the overlapping speaker separation problem. Firstly, we present experiments that show that these methods are applicable for a broad range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Pieter Appeltans , Jeroen Zegers , Hugo Van hamme

In recent years, speech processing algorithms have seen tremendous progress primarily due to the deep learning renaissance. This is especially true for speech separation where the time-domain audio separation network (TasNet) has led to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Morten Kolbæk , Zheng-Hua Tan , Søren Holdt Jensen , Jesper Jensen

Deep learning has enabled major advances in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and multimedia among many others. Developing a deep learning system is arduous and complex, as it involves constructing neural network…

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