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We present the first neural network model to achieve real-time and streaming target sound extraction. To accomplish this, we propose Waveformer, an encoder-decoder architecture with a stack of dilated causal convolution layers as the…

We propose CONF-TSASR, a non-autoregressive end-to-end time-frequency domain architecture for single-channel target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR). The model consists of a TitaNet based speaker embedding module, a Conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Yang Zhang , Krishna C. Puvvada , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

The performance of speaker verification degrades significantly when the test speech is corrupted by interference speakers. Speaker diarization does well to separate speakers if the speakers are temporally overlapped. However, if…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Wei Rao , Chenglin Xu , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Speech separation involves extracting an individual speaker's voice from a multi-speaker audio signal. The increasing complexity of real-world environments, where multiple speakers might converse simultaneously, underscores the importance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Renana Opochinsky , Mordehay Moradi , Sharon Gannot

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

Target speech separation refers to extracting the target speaker's speech from mixed signals. Despite the recent advances in deep learning based close-talk speech separation, the applications to real-world are still an open issue. Two main…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Rongzhi Gu , Yuexian Zou

This work proposes a multichannel speech separation method with narrow-band Conformer (named NBC). The network is trained to learn to automatically exploit narrow-band speech separation information, such as spatial vector clustering of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

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

Separating different speaker properties from a multi-speaker environment is challenging. Instead of separating a two-speaker signal in signal space like speech source separation, a speaker embedding de-mixing approach is proposed. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yanpei Shi , Thomas Hain

Target speaker extraction aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from a composite of multiple sound sources, guided by an enrollment utterance or called anchor. Current methods predominantly derive speaker embeddings from the anchor and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shulin He , Huaiwen Zhang , Wei Rao , Kanghao Zhang , Yukai Ju , Yang Yang , Xueliang Zhang

State-of-the-art Deep Learning systems for speaker verification are commonly based on speaker embedding extractors. These architectures are usually composed of a feature extractor front-end together with a pooling layer to encode…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Federico Costa , Miquel India , Javier Hernando

In this paper, we present a novel system that separates the voice of a target speaker from multi-speaker signals, by making use of a reference signal from the target speaker. We achieve this by training two separate neural networks: (1) A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Quan Wang , Hannah Muckenhirn , Kevin Wilson , Prashant Sridhar , Zelin Wu , John Hershey , Rif A. Saurous , Ron J. Weiss , Ye Jia , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Target speech extraction, which extracts a single target source in a mixture given clues about the target speaker, has attracted increasing attention. We have recently proposed SpeakerBeam, which exploits an adaptation utterance of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Keisuke Kinoshita , Naohiro Tawara , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki

Speaker extraction is to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-talker speech. It simulates humans' cocktail party effect or the selective listening ability. The prior work mostly performs speaker extraction in frequency domain, then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Speaker verification has been studied mostly under the single-talker condition. It is adversely affected in the presence of interference speakers. Inspired by the study on target speaker extraction, e.g., SpEx, we propose a unified speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Jibin Wu , Haizhou Li

Speaker extraction aims to extract the target speech signal from a multi-talker environment given a target speaker's reference speech. We recently proposed a time-domain solution, SpEx, that avoids the phase estimation in frequency-domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

A new type of End-to-End system for text-dependent speaker verification is presented in this paper. Previously, using the phonetically discriminative/speaker discriminative DNNs as feature extractors for speaker verification has shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Shi-Xiong Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Yong Zhao , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

In this paper, we present Multi-scale Feature Aggregation Conformer (MFA-Conformer), an easy-to-implement, simple but effective backbone for automatic speaker verification based on the Convolution-augmented Transformer (Conformer). The…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yang Zhang , Zhiqiang Lv , Haibin Wu , Shanshan Zhang , Pengfei Hu , Zhiyong Wu , Hung-yi Lee , Helen Meng

Recent speech enhancement methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer have been demonstrated to efficaciously capture time-frequency (T-F) information on spectrogram. However, the correlation of each channels of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jizhen Li , Xinmeng Xu , Weiping Tu , Yuhong Yang , Rong Zhu

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