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Automatic lyrics transcription (ALT) remains a challenging task in the field of music information retrieval, despite great advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) brought about by transformer-based architectures in recent years. One…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jaza Syed , Ivan Meresman Higgs , Ondřej Cífka , Mark Sandler

Audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) is a task that uses visual auxiliary information to extract a target speaker's speech from mixed audio. In real-world scenarios, there often exist complex acoustic environments, accompanied by various…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiarong Du , Zhan Jin , Peijun Yang , Juan Liu , Zhuo Li , Xin Liu , Ming Li

This research paper presents a novel deep learning-based neural network architecture, named Y-Net, for achieving music source separation. The proposed architecture performs end-to-end hybrid source separation by extracting features from…

In recent years, rapid progress has been made on the problem of single-channel sound separation using supervised training of deep neural networks. In such supervised approaches, a model is trained to predict the component sources from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Scott Wisdom , Efthymios Tzinis , Hakan Erdogan , Ron J. Weiss , Kevin Wilson , John R. Hershey

Deep learning techniques for separating audio into different sound sources face several challenges. Standard architectures require training separate models for different types of audio sources. Although some universal separators employ a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ke Chen , Xingjian Du , Bilei Zhu , Zejun Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov

We present a multi-channel database of overlapping speech for training, evaluation, and detailed analysis of source separation and extraction algorithms: SMS-WSJ -- Spatialized Multi-Speaker Wall Street Journal. It consists of artificially…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Lukas Drude , Jens Heitkaemper , Christoph Boeddeker , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Augmented listening devices such as hearing aids often perform poorly in noisy and reverberant environments with many competing sound sources. Large distributed microphone arrays can improve performance, but data from remote microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Ryan M. Corey , Matthew D. Skarha , Andrew C. Singer

The problem of speech separation, also known as the cocktail party problem, refers to the task of isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of speech signals. Previous work on source separation derived an upper bound for the source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

We propose a method of separating a desired sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on either a textual description or a short audio sample of the target source. This is achieved by combining two distinct models. The first model,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Kevin Kilgour , Beat Gfeller , Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Scott Wisdom , Marco Tagliasacchi

This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise. Our approach is based on generative inverse sampling, where we model clean speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yochai Yemini , Yoav Ellinson , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Audio source separation is often achieved by estimating the magnitude spectrogram of each source, and then applying a phase recovery (or spectrogram inversion) algorithm to retrieve time-domain signals. Typically, spectrogram inversion is…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Paul Magron , Tuomas Virtanen

Recently, the end-to-end approach has been successfully applied to multi-speaker speech separation and recognition in both single-channel and multichannel conditions. However, severe performance degradation is still observed in the…

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Music source separation aims to separate polyphonic music into different types of sources. Most existing methods focus on enhancing the quality of separated results by using a larger model structure, rendering them unsuitable for deployment…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Chun-Hsiang Wang , Chung-Che Wang , Jun-You Wang , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Yen-Hsun Chu

Singing voice separation attempts to separate the vocal and instrumental parts of a music recording, which is a fundamental problem in music information retrieval. Recent work on singing voice separation has shown that the low-rank…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-12 Tak-Shing T. Chan , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Deep learning based techniques have been popularly adopted in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). Utilization of speaker representation has extended the frontier of AEC, thus attracting many researchers' interest in personalized acoustic echo…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhang , Jiayao Sun , Xianjun Xia , Ziqian Wang , Xiaopeng Yan , Yijian Xiao , Lei Xie

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

Training neural networks for source separation involves presenting a mixture recording at the input of the network and updating network parameters in order to produce an output that resembles the clean source. Consequently, supervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shrikant Venkataramani , Efthymios Tzinis , Paris Smaragdis

Most approaches to multi-talker overlapped speech separation and recognition assume that the number of simultaneously active speakers is given, but in realistic situations, it is typically unknown. To cope with this, we extend an iterative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Lukas Drude , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We introduce Wavesplit, an end-to-end source separation system. From a single mixture, the model infers a representation for each source and then estimates each source signal given the inferred representations. The model is trained to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Neil Zeghidour , David Grangier