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The field of speech separation, addressing the "cocktail party problem", has seen revolutionary advances with DNNs. Speech separation enhances clarity in complex acoustic environments and serves as crucial pre-processing for speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kai Li , Guo Chen , Wendi Sang , Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Shuai Wang , Shulin He , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Andong Li , Zhiyong Wu , Xiaolin Hu

Target sound extraction consists of extracting the sound of a target acoustic event (AE) class from a mixture of AE sounds. It can be realized using a neural network that extracts the target sound conditioned on a 1-hot vector that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Marc Delcroix , Jorge Bennasar Vázquez , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shoko Araki

Audio-visual target speech extraction (AV-TSE) is one of the enabling technologies in robotics and many audio-visual applications. One of the challenges of AV-TSE is how to effectively utilize audio-visual synchronization information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxuan Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Xixin Wu , Haizhou Li , Helen Meng

Relation extraction typically aims to extract semantic relationships between entities from the unstructured text. One of the most essential data sources for relation extraction is the spoken language, such as interviews and dialogues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Tongtong Wu , Guitao Wang , Jinming Zhao , Zhaoran Liu , Guilin Qi , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

Speaker extraction seeks to extract the target speech in a multi-talker scenario given an auxiliary reference. Such reference can be auditory, i.e., a pre-recorded speech, visual, i.e., lip movements, or contextual, i.e., phonetic sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu Pan , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Time-domain single-channel speech enhancement (SE) still remains challenging to extract the target speaker without any prior information on multi-talker conditions. It has been shown via auditory attention decoding that the brain activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Jie Zhang , Qing-Tian Xu , Qiu-Shi Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling

Speech enhancement (SE) methods mainly focus on recovering clean speech from noisy input. In real-world speech communication, however, noises often exist in not only speaker but also listener environments. Although SE methods can suppress…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Haoyu Li , Yun Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

Single channel target speaker separation (TSS) aims at extracting a speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple talkers given an enrollment utterance of that speaker. A typical deep learning TSS framework consists of an upstream model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiaoyu Liu , Xu Li , Joan Serrà

Target speaker extraction aims to extract the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker mixture as specified by an auxiliary reference. Most studies focus on the scenario where the target speech is highly overlapped with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Junjie Li , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) aims to recognize targets, their sentiment polarities and opinions explaining the sentiment from a sentence. ASTE could be naturally divided into 3 atom subtasks, namely target detection, opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Peiyi Wang , Tianyu Liu , Damai Dai , Runxin Xu , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui

Deep clustering is a recently introduced deep learning architecture that uses discriminatively trained embeddings as the basis for clustering. It was recently applied to spectrogram segmentation, resulting in impressive results on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Yusuf Isik , Jonathan Le Roux , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Strong representations of target speakers can help extract important information about speakers and detect corresponding temporal regions in multi-speaker conversations. In this study, we propose a neural architecture that simultaneously…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chin-Yi Cheng , Hung-Shin Lee , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

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

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

This paper presents a Gaze-Guided Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement (GG-AVSE) framework to address the cocktail party problem. A major challenge in conventional AVSE is identifying the listener's intended speaker in multi-talker environments.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Hsiang-Cheng Yang , You-Jin Li , Rong Chao , Yu Tsao , Borching Su , Shao-Yi Chien

In speaker verification, the extraction of voice representations is mainly based on the Residual Neural Network (ResNet) architecture. ResNet is built upon convolution layers which learn filters to capture local spatial patterns along all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Mickael Rouvier , Pierre-Michel Bousquet

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

While recent progresses in neural network approaches to single-channel speech separation, or more generally the cocktail party problem, achieved significant improvement, their performance for complex mixtures is still not satisfactory. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Xiong Xiao , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Zhenghao Wang , Yifan Gong

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

We propose a novel approach that utilizes inter-speaker relative cues to distinguish target speakers and extract their voices from mixtures. Continuous cues (e.g., temporal order, age, pitch level) are grouped by relative differences, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wang Dai , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen