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We propose a semi-supervised singing synthesizer, which is able to learn new voices from audio data only, without any annotations such as phonetic segmentation. Our system is an encoder-decoder model with two encoders, linguistic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jordi Bonada , Merlijn Blaauw

Unsupervised blind source separation methods do not require a training phase and thus cannot suffer from a train-test mismatch, which is a common concern in neural network based source separation. The unsupervised techniques can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Christoph Boeddeker , Frederik Rautenberg , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Source separation can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) under multi-party meeting scenarios by extracting single-speaker signals from overlapped speech. Despite the success of self-supervised learning models in single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuang Li , Xianrui Zheng , Philip C. Woodland

Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Jingru Lin , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

A new learning algorithm for speech separation networks is designed to explicitly reduce residual noise and artifacts in the separated signal in an unsupervised manner. Generative adversarial networks are known to be effective in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Kohei Saijo , Tetsuji Ogawa

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

As parallel training data is scarce for one-shot voice conversion (VC) tasks, waveform reconstruction is typically performed by various VC systems. A typical one-shot VC system comprises a content encoder and a speaker encoder. However, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Songjun Cao , Qinghua Wu , Jie Chen , Jin Li , Long Ma

Single-channel speech separation in time domain and frequency domain has been widely studied for voice-driven applications over the past few years. Most of previous works assume known number of speakers in advance, however, which is not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Yiming Xiao , Haijian Zhang

A novel model was recently proposed by Schulze-Forster et al. in [1] for unsupervised music source separation. This model allows to tackle some of the major shortcomings of existing source separation frameworks. Specifically, it eliminates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Gael Richard , Pierre Chouteau , Bernardo Torres

We consider the problem of audio voice separation for binaural applications, such as earphones and hearing aids. While today's neural networks perform remarkably well (separating $4+$ sources with 2 microphones) they assume a known or fixed…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhongweiyang Xu , Romit Roy Choudhury

Separating audio mixtures into individual instrument tracks has been a long standing challenging task. We introduce a novel weakly supervised audio source separation approach based on deep adversarial learning. Specifically, our loss…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Ning Zhang , Junchi Yan , Yuchen Zhou

Despite the overwhelming success of deep learning in various speech processing tasks, the problem of separating simultaneous speakers in a mixture remains challenging. Two major difficulties in such systems are the arbitrary source…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Zhuo Chen , Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

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

Recent progress in deep learning has enabled many advances in sound separation and visual scene understanding. However, extracting sound sources which are apparent in natural videos remains an open problem. In this work, we present…

In this paper, we address the problem of single-microphone speech separation in the presence of ambient noise. We propose a generative unsupervised technique that directly models both clean speech and structured noise components, training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yochai Yemini , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Audio source separation is a difficult machine learning problem and performance is measured by comparing extracted signals with the component source signals. However, if separation is motivated by the ultimate goal of re-mixing then…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Andrew J. R Simpson , Gerard Roma , Mark D. Plumbley

In multi-channel speech enhancement and robust automatic speech recognition (ASR), beamforming can typically improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the target speaker and produce reliable enhancement with little distortion to target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Zhong-Qiu Wang , Ruizhe Pang

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, current methods heavily rely on artificially mixed audio for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xize Cheng , Slytherin Wang , Zehan Wang , Rongjie Huang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

The task of manipulating the level and/or effects of individual instruments to recompose a mixture of recordings, or remixing, is common across a variety of applications such as music production, audio-visual post-production, podcasts, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Haici Yang , Shivani Firodiya , Nicholas J. Bryan , Minje Kim