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Most speech separation methods, trying to separate all channel sources simultaneously, are still far from having enough general- ization capabilities for real scenarios where the number of input sounds is usually uncertain and even dynamic.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Chenxing Li , Jiaming Xu , Nima Mesgarani , Bo Xu

The common target speech separation directly estimate the target source, ignoring the interrelationship between different speakers at each frame. We propose a multiple-target speech separation model (MTSS) to simultaneously extract each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Bang Zeng , Hongbing Suo , Yulong Wan , Ming Li

Disentangling speaker and content attributes of a speech signal into separate latent representations followed by decoding the content with an exchanged speaker representation is a popular approach for voice conversion, which can be trained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Michael Kuhlmann , Fritz Seebauer , Janek Ebbers , Petra Wagner , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Recently, the end-to-end training approach for multi-channel ASR has shown its effectiveness, which usually consists of a beamforming front-end and a recognition back-end. However, the end-to-end training becomes more difficult due to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Keyu An , Ji Xiao , Zhijian Ou

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

Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tongtao Ling , Shulin He , Pengjie Shen , Zhong-Qiu Wang

We propose a method for joint multichannel speech dereverberation with two spatial-aware tasks: direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and speech separation. The proposed method addresses involved tasks as a sequence to sequence mapping…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Yang Jiao

Due to the high performance of multi-channel speech processing, we can use the outputs from a multi-channel model as teacher labels when training a single-channel model with knowledge distillation. To the contrary, it is also known that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia

In end-to-end multi-channel speech enhancement, the traditional approach of designating one microphone signal as the reference for processing may not always yield optimal results. The limitation is particularly in scenarios with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Wang Dai , Xiaofei Li , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

Multi-channel speech enhancement extracts speech using multiple microphones that capture spatial cues. Effectively utilizing directional information is key for multi-channel enhancement. Deep learning shows great potential on multi-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Jiahui Pan , Pengjie Shen , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

Speaker extraction requires a sample speech from the target speaker as the reference. However, enrolling a speaker with a long speech is not practical. We propose a speaker extraction technique, that performs in multiple stages to take full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

We propose a multi-channel speech enhancement approach with a novel two-stage feature fusion method and a pre-trained acoustic model in a multi-task learning paradigm. In the first fusion stage, the time-domain and frequency-domain features…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Quandong Wang , Junnan Wu , Zhao Yan , Sichong Qian , Liyong Guo , Lichun Fan , Weiji Zhuang , Peng Gao , Yujun Wang

In this paper, we propose a multi-channel network for simultaneous speech dereverberation, enhancement and separation (DESNet). To enable gradient propagation and joint optimization, we adopt the attentional selection mechanism of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yihui Fu , Jian Wu , Yanxin Hu , Mengtao Xing , Lei Xie

This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

Recent progress on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) has enabled overlap-aware speaker diarization with a single neural network. This paper proposes to enhance EEND by using multi-channel signals from distributed microphones. We replace…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Yohei Kawaguchi

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

This paper introduces a multi-scale speech style modeling method for end-to-end expressive speech synthesis. The proposed method employs a multi-scale reference encoder to extract both the global-scale utterance-level and the local-scale…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Xiang Li , Changhe Song , Jingbei Li , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia , Helen Meng

One key aspect differentiating data-driven single- and multi-channel speech enhancement and dereverberation methods is that both the problem formulation and complexity of the solutions are considerably more challenging in the latter case.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Arthur N. dos Santos , Bruno S. Masiero , Túlio C. L. Mateus