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The previous SpEx+ has yielded outstanding performance in speaker extraction and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters inadequate utilization of multi-scale information and speaker embedding. To this end, this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Zilin Wang , Jiuxin Lin , Yukai Ju , Shulin He , Yannan Wang , Zhiyong Wu

Speaker-aware source separation methods are promising workarounds for major difficulties such as arbitrary source permutation and unknown number of sources. However, it remains challenging to achieve satisfying performance provided a very…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jun Wang , Jie Chen , Dan Su , Lianwu Chen , Meng Yu , Yanmin Qian , Dong Yu

The speaker extraction algorithm extracts the target speech from a mixture speech containing interference speech and background noise. The extraction process sometimes over-suppresses the extracted target speech, which not only creates…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Haizhou Li

In this paper we present a unified time-frequency method for speaker extraction in clean and noisy conditions. Given a mixed signal, along with a reference signal, the common approaches for extracting the desired speaker are either applied…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) uses a reference cue to extract the target speech from a mixture. In TSE systems relying on audio cues, the speaker embedding from the enrolled speech is crucial to performance. However, these embeddings may…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Wu , Anbin Qi , Yanzhang Xie , Xiang Xie

The remarkable ability of humans to selectively focus on a target speaker in cocktail party scenarios is facilitated by binaural audio processing. In this paper, we present a binaural time-domain Target Speaker Extraction model based on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Hanyu Meng , Qiquan Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Target speaker extraction aims at extracting the target speaker from a mixture of multiple speakers exploiting auxiliary information about the target speaker. In this paper, we consider a complete time-domain target speaker extraction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-30 Ragini Sinha , Marvin Tammen , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

A speaker extraction algorithm seeks to extract the speech of a target speaker from a multi-talker speech mixture when given a cue that represents the target speaker, such as a pre-enrolled speech utterance, or an accompanying video track.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Zexu Pan , Ruijie Tao , Chenglin Xu , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual multi-modal modeling has been demonstrated to be effective in many speech related tasks, such as speech recognition and speech enhancement. This paper introduces a new time-domain audio-visual architecture for target speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Jian Wu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lian-Wu Chen , Meng Yu , Lei Xie , Dong Yu

Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separation (BSS) counterpart with a similar network architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zifeng Zhao , Dongchao Yang , Rongzhi Gu , Haoran Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Time-domain single-channel speech enhancement (SE) still remains challenging to extract the target speaker without any prior information on multi-talker conditions. It has been shown via auditory attention decoding that the brain activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Jie Zhang , Qing-Tian Xu , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling

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

A speaker extraction algorithm seeks to extract the target speaker's speech from a multi-talker speech mixture. The prior studies focus mostly on speaker extraction from a highly overlapped multi-talker speech mixture. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Haizhou Li

A mixed sample data augmentation strategy is proposed to enhance the performance of models on audio scene classification, sound event classification, and speech enhancement tasks. While there have been several augmentation methods shown to…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Gwantae Kim , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

Robust speech processing in multi-talker environments requires effective speech separation. Recent deep learning systems have made significant progress toward solving this problem, yet it remains challenging particularly in real-time, short…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

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

The performance of speaker verification degrades significantly when the test speech is corrupted by interference speakers. Speaker diarization does well to separate speakers if the speakers are temporally overlapped. However, if…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Wei Rao , Chenglin Xu , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Neuro-steered speaker extraction aims to extract the listener's brain-attended speech signal from a multi-talker speech signal, in which the attention is derived from the cortical activity. This activity is usually recorded using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Zexu Pan , Gordon Wichern , Francois G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Jonathan Le Roux

As a practical alternative of speech separation, target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech from the desired speaker using additional speaker cue extracted from the speaker. Its main challenge lies in how to properly extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kai Liu , Xucheng Wan , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to extract the clean speech of the target speaker in an audio mixture, eliminating irrelevant background noise and speech. While prior work has explored various auxiliary cues including pre-recorded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyang Jiang , Jiahe Lei , Xueyan Chen , Yifan Zhang , Zexu Pan , Wei Xue , Xinyuan Qian