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The task of video-to-speech aims to translate silent video of lip movement to its corresponding audio signal. Previous approaches to this task are generally limited to the case of a single speaker, but a method that accounts for multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Dan Oneata , Adriana Stan , Horia Cucu

Target speaker extraction focuses on isolating a specific speaker's voice from an audio mixture containing multiple speakers. To provide information about the target speaker's identity, prior works have utilized clean audio samples as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shitong Xu , Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Image retrieval using spoken language cues has emerged as a promising direction in multimodal perception, yet leveraging speech in multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging. We propose a novel Target Speaker Speech-Image Retrieval task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Wenhao Yang , Jianguo Wei , Wenhuan Lu , Xinyue Song , Xianghu Yue

Target speaker extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

In this paper, we present a novel multi-channel speech extraction system to simultaneously extract multiple clean individual sources from a mixture in noisy and reverberant environments. The proposed method is built on an improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

Speaker extraction algorithm relies on the speech sample from the target speaker as the reference point to focus its attention. Such a reference speech is typically pre-recorded. On the other hand, the temporal synchronization between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Zexu Pan , Ruijie Tao , Chenglin Xu , Haizhou Li

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

Our objective is an audio-visual model for separating a single speaker from a mixture of sounds such as other speakers and background noise. Moreover, we wish to hear the speaker even when the visual cues are temporarily absent due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper we propose a multi-modal multi-correlation learning framework targeting at the task of audio-visual speech separation. Although previous efforts have been extensively put on combining audio and visual modalities, most of them…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Xiangyu Kong , Xiulian Peng , Yan Lu

Informed speaker extraction aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixture of sources given prior knowledge about the desired speaker. Recent deep learning-based methods leverage a speaker discriminative model that maps a reference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

We propose a novel framework for target speech extraction based on semantic information, called ConceptBeam. Target speech extraction means extracting the speech of a target speaker in a mixture. Typical approaches have been exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yasunori Ohishi , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Shoko Araki , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Akisato Kimura , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

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

Speaker-conditioned target speaker extraction systems rely on auxiliary information about the target speaker to extract the target speaker signal from a mixture of multiple speakers. Typically, a deep neural network is applied to isolate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Ragini Sinha , Marvin Tammen , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

The objective of this paper is to learn representations of speaker identity without access to manually annotated data. To do so, we develop a self-supervised learning objective that exploits the natural cross-modal synchrony between faces…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Arsha Nagrani , Joon Son Chung , Samuel Albanie , Andrew Zisserman

Target speaker extraction aims to extract the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker mixture as specified by an auxiliary reference. Most studies focus on the scenario where the target speech is highly overlapped with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Junjie Li , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Many approaches can derive information about a single speaker's identity from the speech by learning to recognize consistent characteristics of acoustic parameters. However, it is challenging to determine identity information when there are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Hyewon Han , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Speaker extraction aims to extract the target speaker's voice from a multi-talker speech mixture given an auxiliary reference utterance. Recent studies show that speaker extraction benefits from the location or direction of the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li