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Noise-robust speaker verification leverages joint learning of speech enhancement (SE) and speaker verification (SV) to improve robustness. However, prevailing approaches rely on implicit noise suppression, which struggles to separate noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Minu Kim , Kangwook Jang , Hoirin Kim

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 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

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

Speaker verification has been studied mostly under the single-talker condition. It is adversely affected in the presence of interference speakers. Inspired by the study on target speaker extraction, e.g., SpEx, we propose a unified speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Jibin Wu , Haizhou Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) relies on a reference cue of the target to extract the target speech from a speech mixture. While a speaker embedding is commonly used as the reference cue, such embedding pre-trained with a large number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Ke Zhang , Junjie Li , Shuai Wang , Yangjie Wei , Yi Wang , Yannan Wang , Haizhou Li

Previously, Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) has yielded outstanding performance in certain application scenarios for speech enhancement and source separation. However, obtaining auxiliary speaker-related information is still challenging in…

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from a mixture, guided by a pre-recorded enrollment. While TSE bypasses the global permutation ambiguity of blind source separation, it remains vulnerable to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Zikai Liu , Ziqian Wang , Xingchen Li , Yike Zhu , Shuai Wang , Longshuai Xiao , Lei Xie

Target speaker extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) is a technique for isolating a target speaker's voice from mixed speech using auxiliary features associated with the target speaker. It is another attempt at addressing the cocktail party problem and is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chang Sun , Bo Qin

Real-time target speaker extraction (TSE) is intended to extract the desired speaker's voice from the observed mixture of multiple speakers in a streaming manner. Implementing real-time TSE is challenging as the computational complexity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Hiroshi Sato , Takafumi Moriya , Masato Mimura , Shota Horiguchi , Tsubasa Ochiai , Takanori Ashihara , Atsushi Ando , Kentaro Shinayama , Marc Delcroix

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

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

The use of deep networks to extract embeddings for speaker recognition has proven successfully. However, such embeddings are susceptible to performance degradation due to the mismatches among the training, enrollment, and test conditions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Zhong Meng , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate individual speaker voices from complex speech environments. The effectiveness of TSE systems is often compromised when the speaker characteristics are similar to each other. Recent research…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

In many situations, we would like to hear desired sound events (SEs) while being able to ignore interference. Target sound extraction (TSE) tackles this problem by estimating the audio signal of the sounds of target SE classes in a mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Marc Delcroix , Jorge Bennasar Vázquez , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Yasunori Ohishi , Shoko Araki

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech of a target speaker from mixtures containing multiple competing speakers. Conventional TSE systems predominantly rely on speaker cues, such as pre-enrolled speech, to identify and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Haoyu Li , Yu Xi , Yidi Jiang , Shuai Wang , Kate Knill , Mark Gales , Haizhou Li , Kai Yu

As a practical alternative of speech separation, target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech from the desired speaker using additional speaker cue extracted from the speaker. Its main challenge lies in how to properly extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kai Liu , Xucheng Wan , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Background noise is a well-known factor that deteriorates the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems by blurring speech intelligibility. Various studies have used separate pretrained enhancement models as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

Personalized or target speech extraction (TSE) typically needs a clean enrollment -- hard to obtain in real-world crowded environments. We remove the essential need for enrollment by predicting, from the mixture itself, a small set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 FNU Sidharth , Meysam Asgari , Hao-Wen Dong , Dhruv Jain
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