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In active speaker detection (ASD), we would like to detect whether an on-screen person is speaking based on audio-visual cues. Previous studies have primarily focused on modeling audio-visual synchronization cue, which depends on the video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Haizhou Li

Large-scale pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown remarkable advancements in speech-related tasks. However, the utilization of these models in complex multi-talker scenarios, such as extracting a target speaker in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Junyi Peng , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Oldrich Plchot , Takanori Ashihara , Shoko Araki , Jan Cernocky

Audio-visual speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention, as it removes the need for pre-registered speech and leverages the visual modality as a complement to audio. Although existing methods have achieved impressive performance,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiadong Wang , Ke Zhang , Xinyuan Qian , Ruijie Tao , Haizhou Li , Björn Schuller

Target speech extraction is a technique to extract the target speaker's voice from mixture signals using a pre-recorded enrollment utterance that characterize the voice characteristics of the target speaker. One major difficulty of target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Takafumi Moriya , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura

This paper introduces an area-based source separation method designed for virtual meeting scenarios. The aim is to preserve speech signals from an unspecified number of sources within a defined spatial area in front of a linear microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Martin Strauss , Okan Köpüklü

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 separation has been extensively studied to deal with the cocktail party problem in recent years. All related approaches can be divided into two categories: time-frequency domain methods and time domain methods. In addition, some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Fan-Lin Wang , Yu-Huai Peng , Hung-Shin Lee , Hsin-Min Wang

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

Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

Target speech extraction, which extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary speaker clues, has recently received increased interest. Various clues have been investigated such as pre-recorded enrollment utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Marc Delcroix , Katerina Zmolikova , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tomohiro Nakatani

The wide deployment of speech-based biometric systems usually demands high-performance speaker recognition algorithms. However, most of the prior works for speaker recognition either process the speech in the frequency domain or time…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jiguo Li , Tianzi Zhang , Xiaobin Liu , Lirong Zheng

Speech separation involves extracting an individual speaker's voice from a multi-speaker audio signal. The increasing complexity of real-world environments, where multiple speakers might converse simultaneously, underscores the importance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Renana Opochinsky , Mordehay Moradi , Sharon Gannot

Target speech extraction (TSE) isolates the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker overlapped speech mixture. Most existing TSE models rely on discriminative methods, typically predicting a time-frequency spectrogram mask for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Hao Ma , Rujin Chen , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Ju Liu , Xuelong Li

Target Language Extraction aims to extract speech in a specific language from a mixture waveform that contains multiple speakers speaking different languages. The human auditory system is adept at performing this task with the knowledge of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Wupeng Wang , Junyi Ao , Haizhou Li

We introduce CrossNet, a complex spectral mapping approach to speaker separation and enhancement in reverberant and noisy conditions. The proposed architecture comprises an encoder layer, a global multi-head self-attention module, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Vahid Ahmadi Kalkhorani , DeLiang Wang

We address monaural multi-speaker-image separation in reverberant conditions, aiming at separating mixed speakers but preserving the reverberation of each speaker. A straightforward approach for this task is to directly train end-to-end DNN…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Jingqi Sun , Shulin He , Ruizhe Pang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

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…

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

Background: Active noise cancellation has been a subject of research for decades. Traditional techniques, like the Fast Fourier Transform, have limitations in certain scenarios. This research explores the use of deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Brandon Colelough , Andrew Zheng

Speaker extraction seeks to extract the target speech in a multi-talker scenario given an auxiliary reference. Such reference can be auditory, i.e., a pre-recorded speech, visual, i.e., lip movements, or contextual, i.e., phonetic sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu Pan , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang