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Hand-crafted spatial features (e.g., inter-channel phase difference, IPD) play a fundamental role in recent deep learning based multi-channel speech separation (MCSS) methods. However, these manually designed spatial features are hard to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Minhua Wu , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

We propose a method to address audio-visual target speaker enhancement in multi-talker environments using event-driven cameras. State of the art audio-visual speech separation methods shows that crucial information is the movement of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Ander Arriandiaga , Giovanni Morrone , Luca Pasa , Leonardo Badino , Chiara Bartolozzi

Continuous speech separation using a microphone array was shown to be promising in dealing with the speech overlap problem in natural conversation transcription. This paper proposes VarArray, an array-geometry-agnostic speech separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Takuya Yoshioka , Xiaofei Wang , Dongmei Wang , Min Tang , Zirun Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Naoyuki Kanda

A three-stage approach is proposed for speaker counting and speech separation in noisy and reverberant environments. In the spatial feature extraction, a spatial coherence matrix (SCM) is computed using whitened relative transfer functions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian Bai

Distant-microphone meeting transcription is a challenging task. State-of-the-art end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) architectures lack a multichannel noise and reverberation reduction front-end, which limits…

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A speaker extraction algorithm seeks to extract the target speaker's speech from a multi-talker speech mixture. The prior studies focus mostly on speaker extraction from a highly overlapped multi-talker speech mixture. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Haizhou Li

This paper proposes a multi-task learning network with phoneme-aware and channel-wise attentive learning strategies for text-dependent Speaker Verification (SV). In the proposed structure, the frame-level multi-task learning along with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yan Liu , Zheng Li , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

We consider the task of region-based source separation of reverberant multi-microphone recordings. We assume pre-defined spatial regions with a single active source per region. The objective is to estimate the signals from the individual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Julian Wechsler , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Speaker recognition is a task of identifying persons from their voices. Recently, deep learning has dramatically revolutionized speaker recognition. However, there is lack of comprehensive reviews on the exciting progress. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

We propose a deep beamforming framework for enhancing target speaker(s) in multi-speaker environments. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to estimate beamforming weights directly from noisy multichannel inputs while satisfying linear…

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Despite the rapid advance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies, accurate recognition of cocktail party speech characterised by the interference from overlapping speakers, background noise and room reverberation remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Guinan Li , Jianwei Yu , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Deepfake speech detection presents a growing challenge as generative audio technologies continue to advance. We propose a hybrid training framework that advances detection performance through novel augmentation strategies. First, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Inbal Rimon , Oren Gal , Haim Permuter

Text-independent speaker verification is an important artificial intelligence problem that has a wide spectrum of applications, such as criminal investigation, payment certification, and interest-based customer services. The purpose of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Jiwei Xu , Xinggang Wang , Bin Feng , Wenyu Liu

Recent speaker extraction methods using deep non-linear spatial filtering perform exceptionally well when the target direction is known and stationary. However, spatially dynamic scenarios are considerably more challenging due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Jakob Kienegger , Timo Gerkmann

Deep clustering (DC) and utterance-level permutation invariant training (uPIT) have been demonstrated promising for speaker-independent speech separation. DC is usually formulated as two-step processes: embedding learning and embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen

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

Multi-channel deep clustering (MDC) has acquired a good performance for speech separation. However, MDC only applies the spatial features as the additional information. So it is difficult to learn mutual relationship between spatial and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen