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Target audio source separation with natural language queries presents a promising paradigm for extracting arbitrary audio events through arbitrary text descriptions. Existing methods mainly face two challenges, the difficulty in jointly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinlei Yin , Xiulian Peng , Xue Jiang , Zhiwei Xiong , Yan Lu

Supervised deep learning approaches to underdetermined audio source separation achieve state-of-the-art performance but require a dataset of mixtures along with their corresponding isolated source signals. Such datasets can be extremely…

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

Audio source separation aims to separate a mixture into target sources. Previous audio source separation systems usually conduct one-step inference, which does not fully explore the separation ability of models. In this work, we reveal that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongyi Zang , Jingyi Li , Qiuqiang Kong

Single-channel speech separation in time domain and frequency domain has been widely studied for voice-driven applications over the past few years. Most of previous works assume known number of speakers in advance, however, which is not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Yiming Xiao , Haijian Zhang

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani

We consider the problem of separating a particular sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on only a short sample of the target source. Using SoundFilter, a wave-to-wave neural network architecture, we can train a model without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Beat Gfeller , Dominik Roblek , Marco Tagliasacchi

Achieving robust speech separation for overlapping speakers in various acoustic environments with noise and reverberation remains an open challenge. Although existing datasets are available to train separators for specific scenarios, they…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ke Chen , Jiaqi Su , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Shlomo Dubnov , Zeyu Jin

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Modern smart glasses leverage advanced audio sensing and machine learning technologies to offer real-time transcribing and captioning services, considerably enriching human experiences in daily communications. However, such systems…

We consider Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jae Ho Chang , Massimiliano Russo , Subhadeep Paul

Speaker separation aims to extract multiple voices from a mixed signal. In this paper, we propose two speaker-aware designs to improve the existing speaker separation solutions. The first model is a speaker conditioning network that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tao Sun , Nidal Abuhajar , Shuyu Gong , Zhewei Wang , Charles D. Smith , Xianhui Wang , Li Xu , Jundong Liu

General audio source separation is a key capability for multimodal AI systems that can perceive and reason about sound. Despite substantial progress in recent years, existing separation models are either domain-specific, designed for fixed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Bowen Shi , Andros Tjandra , John Hoffman , Helin Wang , Yi-Chiao Wu , Luya Gao , Julius Richter , Matt Le , Apoorv Vyas , Sanyuan Chen , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Piotr Dollár , Wei-Ning Hsu , Ann Lee

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

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

Many of the recent advances in speech separation are primarily aimed at synthetic mixtures of short audio utterances with high degrees of overlap. Most of these approaches need an additional stitching step to stitch the separated speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Katrin Kirchhoff , Daniel Garcia-Romero

The end-to-end approach for single-channel speech separation has been studied recently and shown promising results. This paper extended the previous approach and proposed a new end-to-end model for multi-channel speech separation. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Rongzhi Gu , Jian Wu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Source separation can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) under multi-party meeting scenarios by extracting single-speaker signals from overlapped speech. Despite the success of self-supervised learning models in single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuang Li , Xianrui Zheng , Philip C. Woodland

Single-channel speech enhancement is utilized in various tasks to mitigate the effect of interfering signals. Conventionally, to ensure the speech enhancement performs optimally, the speech enhancement has needed to be tuned for each task.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Ryo Masumura

The application of transfer learning, leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance model performance in a target domain, has significantly grown, supporting diverse real-world applications. Its success often relies on shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Runxue Bao , Yiming Sun , Yuhe Gao , Jindong Wang , Qiang Yang , Zhi-Hong Mao , Ye Ye