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The goal of multilingual speech technology is to facilitate seamless communication between individuals speaking different languages, creating the experience as though everyone were a multilingual speaker. To create this experience, speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Thai-Binh Nguyen , Yiğit Oğuz , Enes Ugan , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

The performance of single channel source separation algorithms has improved greatly in recent times with the development and deployment of neural networks. However, many such networks continue to operate on the magnitude spectrogram of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-08 Shrikant Venkataramani , Paris Smaragdis

This paper introduces a multi-stage self-directed framework designed to address the spatial semantic segmentation of sound scene (S5) task in the DCASE 2025 Task 4 challenge. This framework integrates models focused on three distinct tasks:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Younghoo Kwon , Dongheon Lee , Dohwan Kim , Jung-Woo Choi

The objective of this paper is to separate a target speaker's speech from a mixture of two speakers using a deep audio-visual speech separation network. Unlike previous works that used lip movement on video clips or pre-enrolled speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Soo-Whan Chung , Soyeon Choe , Joon Son Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Speech separation is the process of separating multiple speakers from an audio recording. In this work we propose to separate the sources using a Speaker LOcalization Guided Deflation (SLOGD) approach wherein we estimate the sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Sunit Sivasankaran , Emmanuel Vincent , Dominique Fohr

Universal sound separation aims to extract clean audio tracks corresponding to distinct events from mixed audio, which is critical for artificial auditory perception. However, current methods heavily rely on artificially mixed audio for…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Xize Cheng , Slytherin Wang , Zehan Wang , Rongjie Huang , Tao Jin , Zhou Zhao

Deep learning speech separation algorithms have achieved great success in improving the quality and intelligibility of separated speech from mixed audio. Most previous methods focused on generating a single-channel output for each of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Cong Han , Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are successfully applied in a wide variety of music information retrieval (MIR) tasks but their predictions are usually not interpretable. We propose audioLIME, a method based on Local Interpretable…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Verena Haunschmid , Ethan Manilow , Gerhard Widmer

Audio source separation is a difficult machine learning problem and performance is measured by comparing extracted signals with the component source signals. However, if separation is motivated by the ultimate goal of re-mixing then…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Andrew J. R Simpson , Gerard Roma , Mark D. Plumbley

During the Covid, online meetings have become an indispensable part of our lives. This trend is likely to continue due to their convenience and broad reach. However, background noise from other family members, roommates, office-mates not…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Wei Sun , Mei Wang , Lili Qiu

Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Sameeksha Katoch , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

Sound source separation has attracted attention from Music Information Retrieval(MIR) researchers, since it is related to many MIR tasks such as automatic lyric transcription, singer identification, and voice conversion. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Jaehoon Oh , Duyeon Kim , Se-Young Yun

Audio-visual speech separation (AVSS) aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixed signal by leveraging both auditory and visual (lip movement) cues. However, most existing AVSS methods exhibit complex architectures and rely on…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Wendi Sang , Kai Li , Runxuan Yang , Jianqiang Huang , Xiaolin Hu

Speaker independent continuous speech separation (SI-CSS) is a task of converting a continuous audio stream, which may contain overlapping voices of unknown speakers, into a fixed number of continuous signals each of which contains no…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-16 Takuya Yoshioka , Zhuo Chen , Changliang Liu , Xiong Xiao , Hakan Erdogan , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

The objective of this paper is to perform audio-visual sound source separation, i.e.~to separate component audios from a mixture based on the videos of sound sources. Moreover, we aim to pinpoint the source location in the input video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu

Speech separation aims to separate individual voice from an audio mixture of multiple simultaneous talkers. Although audio-only approaches achieve satisfactory performance, they build on a strategy to handle the predefined conditions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Peng Zhang , Jiaming Xu , Jing shi , Yunzhe Hao , Bo Xu

This paper proposes a novel framework for unsupervised audio source separation using a deep autoencoder. The characteristics of unknown source signals mixed in the mixed input is automatically by properly configured autoencoders implemented…

Sound · Computer Science 2014-12-24 Giljin Jang , Han-Gyu Kim , Yung-Hwan Oh

Speech translation models are unable to directly process long audios, like TED talks, which have to be split into shorter segments. Speech translation datasets provide manual segmentations of the audios, which are not available in…

We present ESPnet-SE, which is designed for the quick development of speech enhancement and speech separation systems in a single framework, along with the optional downstream speech recognition module. ESPnet-SE is a new project which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Chenda Li , Jing Shi , Wangyou Zhang , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Xuankai Chang , Naoyuki Kamo , Moto Hira , Tomoki Hayashi , Christoph Boeddeker , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

We present a novel approach to multilingual audio-visual speech recognition tasks by introducing a single model on a multilingual dataset. Motivated by a human cognitive system where humans can intuitively distinguish different languages…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Joanna Hong , Se Jin Park , Yong Man Ro