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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…

Single channel target speaker separation (TSS) aims at extracting a speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple talkers given an enrollment utterance of that speaker. A typical deep learning TSS framework consists of an upstream model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Xu Li , Joan Serrà

Extracting the speech of participants in a conversation amidst interfering speakers and noise presents a challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the novel task of target conversation extraction, where the goal is to extract the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Tuochao Chen , Qirui Wang , Bohan Wu , Malek Itani , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminative, recent generative methods for TSE achieve strong results.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Yael Segal-Feldman , Neta Glazer , Gil Hetz , Joseph Keshet

Target speaker extraction focuses on extracting a target speech signal from an environment with multiple speakers by leveraging an enrollment. Existing methods predominantly rely on speaker embeddings obtained from the enrollment,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Shanping Yu , Chang Sun , Jianping An

This paper proposes the target speaker enhancement based speaker verification network (TASE-SVNet), an all neural model that couples target speaker enhancement and speaker embedding extraction for robust speaker verification (SV).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

This paper proposes a method for extracting speaker embedding for each speaker from a variable-length recording containing multiple speakers. Speaker embeddings are crucial not only for speaker recognition but also for various multi-speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix

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

Speaker clustering is the task of differentiating speakers in a recording. In a way, the aim is to answer "who spoke when" in audio recordings. A common method used in industry is feature extraction directly from the recording thanks to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Maxime Jumelle , Taqiyeddine Sakmeche

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

Speech separation has been extensively explored to tackle the cocktail party problem. However, these studies are still far from having enough generalization capabilities for real scenarios. In this work, we raise a common strategy named…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Bo Xu

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

One-shot voice conversion has received significant attention since only one utterance from source speaker and target speaker respectively is required. Moreover, source speaker and target speaker do not need to be seen during training.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongqiang Du , Lei Xie

Human brain performs remarkably well in segregating a particular speaker from interfering ones in a multi-speaker scenario. It has been recently shown that we can quantitatively evaluate the segregation capability by modelling the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ivine Kuruvila , Jan Muncke , Eghart Fischer , Ulrich Hoppe

Target speech extraction (TSE) extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary clues characterizing the speaker, such as an enrollment utterance. TSE addresses thus the challenging problem of simultaneously performing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Hiroshi Sato , Tomohiro Nakatani

Dominant researches adopt supervised training for speaker extraction, while the scarcity of ideally clean corpus and channel mismatch problem are rarely considered. To this end, we propose speaker-aware mixture of mixtures training (SAMoM),…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Zifeng Zhao , Rongzhi Gu , Dongchao Yang , Jinchuan Tian , Yuexian Zou

This paper addresses the problem of single-channel speech separation, where the number of speakers is unknown, and each speaker may speak multiple utterances. We propose a speech separation model that simultaneously performs separation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Most state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) approaches for speaker recognition work on a short utterance level. Given the speech signal, these algorithms extract a sequence of speaker embeddings from short segments and those are averaged to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Miquel India , Pooyan Safari , Javier Hernando

Humans can easily isolate a single speaker from a complex acoustic environment, a capability referred to as the "Cocktail Party Effect." However, replicating this ability has been a significant challenge in the field of target speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Jibin Wu , Jianwei Yu , Chenglin Xu , Kay Chen Tan

The end-to-end approaches for single-channel target speech extraction have attracted widespread attention. However, the studies for end-to-end multi-channel target speech extraction are still relatively limited. In this work, we propose two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jiangyu Han , Xinyuan Zhou , Yanhua Long , Yijie Li