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In this paper, we introduce a neural network-based method for regional speech separation using a microphone array. This approach leverages novel spatial cues to extract the sound source not only from specified direction but also within…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiheng Jiang , Haoxu Wang , Yafeng Chen , Gang Qiao , Biao Tian

Augmented reality devices have the potential to enhance human perception and enable other assistive functionalities in complex conversational environments. Effectively capturing the audio-visual context necessary for understanding these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Hao Jiang , Calvin Murdock , Vamsi Krishna Ithapu

Current speaker diarization systems rely on an external voice activity detection model prior to speaker embedding extraction on the detected speech segments. In this paper, we establish that the attention system of a speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Jenthe Thienpondt , Kris Demuynck

Extracting the desired speech from a mixture is a meaningful and challenging task. The end-to-end DNN-based methods, though attractive, face the problem of generalization. In this paper, we explore a sequential approach for target speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhaoyi Gu , Lele Liao , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

The vast majority of speech separation methods assume that the number of speakers is known in advance, hence they are specific to the number of speakers. By contrast, a more realistic and challenging task is to separate a mixture in which…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Zhenhao Jin , Xiang Hao , Xiangdong Su

Multi-modal cues, including spatial information, facial expression and voiceprint, are introduced to the speech separation and speaker extraction tasks to serve as complementary information to achieve better performance. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Qinghua Liu , Yating Huang , Yunzhe Hao , Jiaming Xu , Bo Xu

Target speech extraction (TSE) focuses on extracting the speech of a specific target speaker from a mixture of signals. Existing TSE models typically utilize static embeddings as conditions for extracting the target speaker's voice.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yiwen Wang , Zeyu Yuan , Xihong Wu

Leveraging additional speaker information to facilitate speech separation has received increasing attention in recent years. Recent research includes extracting target speech by using the target speaker's voice snippet and jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Cong Han , Yi Luo , Chenda Li , Tianyan Zhou , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shinji Watanabe , Marc Delcroix , Hakan Erdogan , John R. Hershey , Nima Mesgarani , Zhuo Chen

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

We propose a new method for speaker diarization that can handle overlapping speech with 2+ people. Our method is based on compositional embeddings [1]: Like standard speaker embedding methods such as x-vector [2], compositional embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zeqian Li , Jacob Whitehill

Usable speech criteria are proposed to extract minimally corrupted speech for speaker identification (SID) in co-channel speech. In co-channel speech, either speaker can randomly appear as the stronger speaker or the weaker one at a time.…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Wajdi Ghezaiel , Amel Ben Slimane , Ezzedine Ben Braiek

Due to improvements in artificial intelligence, speaker identification (SI) technologies have brought a great direction and are now widely used in a variety of sectors. One of the most important components of SI is feature extraction, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Noor Ahmad Al Hindawi , Ismail Shahin , Ali Bou Nassif

We propose a Beamformer-guided Target Speaker Extraction (BG-TSE) method to extract a target speaker's voice from a multi-channel recording informed by the direction of arrival of the target. The proposed method employs a front-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Mohamed Elminshawi , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Emanuël A. P. Habets

In the field of multi-channel, multi-speaker Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the task of discerning and accurately transcribing a target speaker's speech within background noise remains a formidable challenge. Traditional approaches…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

The Audio-Visual Speaker Extraction (AVSE) algorithm employs parallel video recording to leverage two visual cues, namely speaker identity and synchronization, to enhance performance compared to audio-only algorithms. However, the visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu pan , Rui Cao , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Shiliang Zhang

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

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for capturing contextual information in natural language processing tasks. We propose a novel approach to speaker diarization that incorporates the prowess of LLMs to exploit contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Tae Jin Park , Kunal Dhawan , Nithin Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam

Target speech extraction is a technique to extract the target speaker's voice from mixture signals using a pre-recorded enrollment utterance that characterize the voice characteristics of the target speaker. One major difficulty of target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Takafumi Moriya , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura

Visual speech recognition is a technique to identify spoken content in silent speech videos, which has raised significant attention in recent years. Advancements in data-driven deep learning methods have significantly improved both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lei Yang , Junshan Jin , Mingyuan Zhang , Yi He , Bofan Chen , Shilin Wang

This paper proposes a speech rhythm-based method for speaker embeddings to model phoneme duration using a few utterances by the target speaker. Speech rhythm is one of the essential factors among speaker characteristics, along with acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Kenichi Fujita , Atsushi Ando , Yusuke Ijima