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We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller

The goal of speech separation is to extract multiple speech sources from a single microphone recording. Recently, with the advancement of deep learning and availability of large datasets, speech separation has been formulated as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hansen

We propose a method of separating a desired sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on either a textual description or a short audio sample of the target source. This is achieved by combining two distinct models. The first model,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Kevin Kilgour , Beat Gfeller , Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Scott Wisdom , Marco Tagliasacchi

Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Daning Zhang , Ying Wei

Deep neural speech and audio processing systems have a large number of trainable parameters, a relatively complex architecture, and require a vast amount of training data and computational power. These constraints make it more challenging…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Shahin Amiriparian , Tobias Hübner , Maurice Gerczuk , Sandra Ottl , Björn W. Schuller

We present StreamVC, a streaming voice conversion solution that preserves the content and prosody of any source speech while matching the voice timbre from any target speech. Unlike previous approaches, StreamVC produces the resulting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yang Yang , Yury Kartynnik , Yunpeng Li , Jiuqiang Tang , Xing Li , George Sung , Matthias Grundmann

Streaming speech translation (StreamST) requires determining appropriate timing, known as policy, to generate translations while continuously receiving source speech inputs, balancing low latency with high translation quality. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shoutao Guo , Xiang Li , Mengge Liu , Wei Chen , Yang Feng

Streaming recognition and segmentation of multi-party conversations with overlapping speech is crucial for the next generation of voice assistant applications. In this work we address its challenges discovered in the previous work on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Christian Osendorfer

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Speech Enhancement techniques have become core technologies in mobile devices and voice software. Still, modern deep learning solutions often require high amount of computational resources what makes their usage on low-resource devices…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ekaterina Dmitrieva , Maksim Kaledin

Recent works have shown that prompting large language models with audio encodings can unlock speech recognition capabilities. However, existing techniques do not scale efficiently, especially while handling long form streaming audio inputs…

This paper presents a joint source separation algorithm that simultaneously reduces acoustic echo, reverberation and interfering sources. Target speeches are separated from the mixture by maximizing independence with respect to the other…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Yueyue Na , Ziteng Wang , Zhang Liu , Biao Tian , Qiang Fu

We present VoiceDiT, a multi-modal generative model for producing environment-aware speech and audio from text and visual prompts. While aligning speech with text is crucial for intelligible speech, achieving this alignment in noisy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Jaemin Jung , Junseok Ahn , Chaeyoung Jung , Tan Dat Nguyen , Youngjoon Jang , Joon Son Chung

Deploying modern Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) in streaming settings requires systems that provide low latency, high throughput, and strong guarantees of streamability. Existing systems fall short of supporting diverse models flexibly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Keisuke Kamahori , Wei-Tzu Lee , Atindra Jha , Rohan Kadekodi , Stephanie Wang , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Baris Kasikci

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

Achieving robust speech separation for overlapping speakers in various acoustic environments with noise and reverberation remains an open challenge. Although existing datasets are available to train separators for specific scenarios, they…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ke Chen , Jiaqi Su , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov , Zeyu Jin

Streaming Speech-to-Text Translation (StreamST) requires producing translations concurrently with incoming speech, imposing strict latency constraints and demanding models that balance partial-information decision-making with high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Marco Gaido , Sara Papi , Mauro Cettolo , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

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

Despite the recent success of speech separation models, they fail to separate sources properly while facing different sets of people or noisy environments. To tackle this problem, we proposed to apply meta-learning to the speech separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yuan-Kuei Wu , Kuan-Po Huang , Yu Tsao , Hung-yi Lee

We propose Audio-Visual Lightweight ITerative model (AVLIT), an effective and lightweight neural network that uses Progressive Learning (PL) to perform audio-visual speech separation in noisy environments. To this end, we adopt the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Héctor Martel , Julius Richter , Kai Li , Xiaolin Hu , Timo Gerkmann