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Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

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

Self-supervised learning has been used to leverage unlabelled data, improving accuracy and generalisation of speech systems through the training of representation models. While many recent works have sought to produce effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Antoni Dimitriadis , Siqi Pan , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Beena Ahmed

A three-stage approach is proposed for speaker counting and speech separation in noisy and reverberant environments. In the spatial feature extraction, a spatial coherence matrix (SCM) is computed using whitened relative transfer functions…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian Bai

Teleconferencing is becoming essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in real-world applications, speech quality can deteriorate due to, for example, background interference, noise, or reverberation. To solve this problem, target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Yicheng Hsu , Yonghan Lee , Mingsian R. Bai

We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller

While the spatial directivity of multichannel speech enhancement algorithms improves with the number of microphones, fitting large capture arrays into real-world edge devices is typically limited by physical constraints. To overcome this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Dongheon Lee , Ashutosh Pandey , Sanjeel Parekh , Daniel Wong , Jacob Donley , Buye Xu , Juan Azcarreta

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems severely degrades when multi-talker speech overlap occurs. In meeting environments, speech separation is typically performed to improve the robustness of ASR systems. Recently,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

With the recent advancements of data driven approaches using deep neural networks, music source separation has been formulated as an instrument-specific supervised problem. While existing deep learning models implicitly absorb the spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Darius Petermann , Minje Kim

In general, multi-channel source separation has utilized inter-microphone phase differences (IPDs) concatenated with magnitude information in time-frequency domain, or real and imaginary components stacked along the channel axis. However,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Ui-Hyeop Shin , Bon Hyeok Ku , Hyung-Min Park

Speech clarity and spatial audio immersion are the two most critical factors in enhancing remote conferencing experiences. Existing methods are often limited: either due to the lack of spatial information when using only one microphone, or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Cheng Chi , Xiaoyu Li , Yuxuan Ke , Qunping Ni , Yao Ge , Xiaodong Li , Chengshi Zheng

This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…

Multi-channel speech separation in dynamic environments is challenging as time-varying spatial and spectral features evolve at different temporal scales. Existing methods typically employ sequential architectures, forcing a single network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Speech separation has been shown effective for multi-talker speech recognition. Under the ad hoc microphone array setup where the array consists of spatially distributed asynchronous microphones, additional challenges must be overcome as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Dongmei Wang , Takuya Yoshioka , Zhuo Chen , Xiaofei Wang , Tianyan Zhou , Zhong Meng

Most deep learning-based multi-channel speech enhancement methods focus on designing a set of beamforming coefficients to directly filter the low signal-to-noise ratio signals received by microphones, which hinders the performance of these…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Wenzhe Liu , Andong Li , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

Target speech separation refers to isolating target speech from a multi-speaker mixture signal by conditioning on auxiliary information about the target speaker. Different from the mainstream audio-visual approaches which usually require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

The source separation-based speech enhancement problem with multiple beamforming in reverberant indoor environments is addressed in this paper. We propose that more generic solutions should cope with time-varying dynamic scenarios with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Alejandro Díaz , Diego Pincheira , Rodrigo Mahu , Nestor Becerra Yoma

We propose a neural network model that can separate target speech sources from interfering sources at different angular regions using two microphones. The model is trained with simulated room impulse responses (RIRs) using omni-directional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yang Yang , George Sung , Shao-Fu Shih , Hakan Erdogan , Chehung Lee , Matthias Grundmann

Speech separation (SS) has advanced significantly with neural network-based methods, showing improved performance on signal-level metrics. However, these methods often struggle to maintain speech intelligibility in the separated signals,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianhua Li , Chenda Li , Wei Wang , Xin Zhou , Xihui Chen , Jianqing Gao , Yanmin Qian

Query-based audio source extraction seeks to recover a target source from a mixture conditioned on a query. Existing approaches are largely confined to single-channel audio, leaving the spatial information in multi-channel recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Chenxin Yu , Hao Ma , Xu Li , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li