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Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech of a target speaker from mixtures containing multiple competing speakers. Conventional TSE systems predominantly rely on speaker cues, such as pre-enrolled speech, to identify and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Haoyu Li , Yu Xi , Yidi Jiang , Shuai Wang , Kate Knill , Mark Gales , Haizhou Li , Kai Yu

We propose a multichannel-to-multichannel target sound extraction (M2M-TSE) framework for separating multichannel target signals from a multichannel mixture of sound sources. Target sound extraction (TSE) isolates a specific target signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Dayun Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

Humans can listen to a target speaker even in challenging acoustic conditions that have noise, reverberation, and interfering speakers. This phenomenon is known as the cocktail-party effect. For decades, researchers have focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Katerina Zmolikova , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Jan Černocký , Dong Yu

This paper aims to achieve single-channel target speech extraction (TSE) in enclosures utilizing distance clues and room information. Recent works have verified the feasibility of distance clues for the TSE task, which can imply the sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Runwu Shi , Zirui Lin , Benjamin Yen , Jiang Wang , Ragib Amin Nihal , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to recover a target speaker's speech from a mixture using a reference utterance as a cue. Most TSE systems adopt conditional auto-encoder architectures with one-step inference. Inspired by test-time…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhenghai You , Ying Shi , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Universal sound separation (USS) aims to extract arbitrary types of sounds from real-world recordings. This can be achieved by language-queried target sound extraction (TSE), which typically consists of two components: a query network that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Xu Li , Mingjie Shao , Xixin Wu , Ju Liu

Pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved remarkable success in various speech tasks. However, their potential in target speech extraction (TSE) has not been fully exploited. TSE aims to extract the speech of a target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Junyi Peng , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Oldrich Plchot , Shoko Araki , Jan Cernocky

In this paper, we investigate a novel approach for Target Speech Extraction (TSE), which relies solely on textual context to extract the target speech. We refer to this task as Contextual Speech Extraction (CSE). Unlike traditional TSE…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Minsu Kim , Rodrigo Mira , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to mimic the human ability to enhance auditory perception using visual cues. Although numerous models have been proposed recently, most of them estimate target signals by primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wenxuan Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Shuai Wang , Jiadong Wang , Lingwei Meng , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

As a practical alternative of speech separation, target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech from the desired speaker using additional speaker cue extracted from the speaker. Its main challenge lies in how to properly extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kai Liu , Xucheng Wan , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Previously, Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) has yielded outstanding performance in certain application scenarios for speech enhancement and source separation. However, obtaining auxiliary speaker-related information is still challenging in…

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to extract the clean speech of the target speaker in an audio mixture, eliminating irrelevant background noise and speech. While prior work has explored various auxiliary cues including pre-recorded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyang Jiang , Jiahe Lei , Xueyan Chen , Yifan Zhang , Zexu Pan , Wei Xue , Xinyuan Qian

Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tongtao Ling , Shulin He , Pengjie Shen , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Common target sound extraction (TSE) approaches primarily relied on discriminative approaches in order to separate the target sound while minimizing interference from the unwanted sources, with varying success in separating the target from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Karan Thakkar , Najim Dehak , Mounya Elhilali

Achieving robust and personalized performance in neuro-steered Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) remains a significant challenge for next-generation hearing aids. This is primarily due to two factors: the inherent non-stationarity of EEG…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qiushi Han , Yuan Liao , Youhao Si , Liya Huang

The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Kohei Saijo , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from a mixture, guided by a pre-recorded enrollment. While TSE bypasses the global permutation ambiguity of blind source separation, it remains vulnerable to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Zikai Liu , Ziqian Wang , Xingchen Li , Yike Zhu , Shuai Wang , Longshuai Xiao , Lei Xie

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from multi-speaker mixtures. Despite strong benchmark results, real-world performance often degrades due to different interacting factors. Previous curriculum…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) models primarily rely on target visual cues to isolate the target speaker's voice from others. We know that humans leverage linguistic knowledge, such as syntax and semantics, to support…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li