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This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. To improve robustness of speaker recognition system performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The prevailing noise-resistant and reverberation-resistant localization algorithms primarily emphasize separating and providing directional output for each speaker in multi-speaker scenarios, without association with the identity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yu Chen , Xinyuan Qian , Zexu Pan , Kainan Chen , Haizhou Li

We propose a neural network model that can separate target speech sources from interfering sources at different angular regions using two microphones. The model is trained with simulated room impulse responses (RIRs) using omni-directional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yang Yang , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Hakan Erdogan , Chehung Lee , Matthias Grundmann

Audio-visual multi-modal modeling has been demonstrated to be effective in many speech related tasks, such as speech recognition and speech enhancement. This paper introduces a new time-domain audio-visual architecture for target speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Jian Wu , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lian-Wu Chen , Meng Yu , Lei Xie , Dong Yu

Most existing deep learning based binaural speaker separation systems focus on producing a monaural estimate for each of the target speakers, and thus do not preserve the interaural cues, which are crucial for human listeners to perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Ke Tan , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi

We present the first neural network model to achieve real-time and streaming target sound extraction. To accomplish this, we propose Waveformer, an encoder-decoder architecture with a stack of dilated causal convolution layers as the…

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

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

This paper describes our submission to the Second Clarity Enhancement Challenge (CEC2), which consists of target speech enhancement for hearing-aid (HA) devices in noisy-reverberant environments with multiple interferers such as music and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Samuele Cornell , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Yoshiki Masuyama , Shinji Watanabe , Manuel Pariente , Nobutaka Ono

This paper presents a robust multi-channel speaker extraction algorithm designed to handle inaccuracies in reference information. While existing approaches often rely solely on either spatial or spectral cues to identify the target speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

We study the use of the Wave-U-Net architecture for speech enhancement, a model introduced by Stoller et al for the separation of music vocals and accompaniment. This end-to-end learning method for audio source separation operates directly…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Craig Macartney , Tillman Weyde

Target confusion, defined as occasional switching to non-target speakers, poses a key challenge for end-to-end speaker extraction (E2E-SE) systems. We argue that this problem is largely caused by the lack of generalizability and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhenghai You , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Speech enhancement plays an essential role in improving the quality of speech signals in noisy environments. This paper investigates the efficacy of integrating Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (BGRU) and Transformer models for speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Souliman Alghnam , Mohammad Alhussien , Khaled Shaheen

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

In this work, we address the problem of binaural target-speaker extraction in the presence of multiple simultane-ous talkers. We propose a novel approach that leverages the individual listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot

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

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

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

Most neural network speech enhancement models ignore speech production mathematical models by directly mapping Fourier transform spectrums or waveforms. In this work, we propose a neural source filter network for speech enhancement.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shulin He , Wei Rao , Jinjiang Liu , Jun Chen , Yukai Ju , Xueliang Zhang , Yannan Wang , Shidong Shang