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Target speech separation refers to isolating target speech from a multi-speaker mixture signal by conditioning on auxiliary information about the target speaker. Different from the mainstream audio-visual approaches which usually require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Single-channel speech separation is a crucial task for enhancing speech recognition systems in multi-speaker environments. This paper investigates the robustness of state-of-the-art Neural Network models in scenarios where the pitch…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Bunlong Lay , Sebastian Zaczek , Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

This paper presents a novel speech phase prediction model which predicts wrapped phase spectra directly from amplitude spectra by neural networks. The proposed model is a cascade of a residual convolutional network and a parallel estimation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

In this work, we tackle a denoising and dereverberation problem with a single-stage framework. Although denoising and dereverberation may be considered two separate challenging tasks, and thus, two modules are typically required for each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Hyeong-Seok Choi , Hoon Heo , Jie Hwan Lee , Kyogu Lee

The SpeakerBeam-FE (SBF) method is proposed for speaker extraction. It attempts to overcome the problem of unknown number of speakers in an audio recording during source separation. The mask approximation loss of SBF is sub-optimal, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-26 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Deep learning based speech enhancement and source separation systems have recently reached unprecedented levels of quality, to the point that performance is reaching a new ceiling. Most systems rely on estimating the magnitude of a target…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Jonathan Le Roux , Gordon Wichern , Shinji Watanabe , Andy Sarroff , John R. Hershey

This paper presents a novel neural speech phase prediction model which predicts wrapped phase spectra directly from amplitude spectra. The proposed model is a cascade of a residual convolutional network and a parallel estimation…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yang Ai , Zhen-Hua Ling

This paper proposes a neural network based speech separation method using spatially distributed microphones. Unlike with traditional microphone array settings, neither the number of microphones nor their spatial arrangement is known in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Dongmei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Speaker extraction is to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-talker speech. It simulates humans' cocktail party effect or the selective listening ability. The prior work mostly performs speaker extraction in frequency domain, then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Deep clustering (DC) and utterance-level permutation invariant training (uPIT) have been demonstrated promising for speaker-independent speech separation. DC is usually formulated as two-step processes: embedding learning and embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen

Time-frequency (T-F) domain masking is a mainstream approach for single-channel speech enhancement. Recently, focuses have been put to phase prediction in addition to amplitude prediction. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Dacheng Yin , Chong Luo , Zhiwei Xiong , Wenjun Zeng

Speech separation has been extensively studied to deal with the cocktail party problem in recent years. All related approaches can be divided into two categories: time-frequency domain methods and time domain methods. In addition, some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Fan-Lin Wang , Yu-Huai Peng , Hung-Shin Lee , Hsin-Min Wang

Music source separation is important for applications such as karaoke and remixing. Much of previous research focuses on estimating short-time Fourier transform (STFT) magnitude and discarding phase information. We observe that, for singing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Yixuan Zhang , Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

Binaural speech separation in real-world scenarios often involves moving speakers. Most current speech separation methods use utterance-level permutation invariant training (u-PIT) for training. In inference time, however, the order of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Cong Han , Nima Mesgarani

Deep neural network (DNN) based end-to-end optimization in the complex time-frequency (T-F) domain or time domain has shown considerable potential in monaural speech separation. Many recent studies optimize loss functions defined solely in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Audio-visual speech separation methods aim to integrate different modalities to generate high-quality separated speech, thereby enhancing the performance of downstream tasks such as speech recognition. Most existing state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Samuel Pegg , Kai Li , Xiaolin Hu

This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Deep learning has shown a great potential for speech separation, especially for speech and non-speech separation. However, it encounters permutation problem for multi-speaker separation where both target and interference are speech.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Hao Li , Xueliang Zhang , Guanglai Gao

A promising approach for speech dereverberation is based on supervised learning, where a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to predict the direct sound from noisy-reverberant speech. This data-driven approach is based on leveraging prior…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux