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Our goal is to isolate individual speakers from multi-talker simultaneous speech in videos. Existing works in this area have focussed on trying to separate utterances from known speakers in controlled environments. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Target speaker extraction focuses on isolating a specific speaker's voice from an audio mixture containing multiple speakers. To provide information about the target speaker's identity, prior works have utilized clean audio samples as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shitong Xu , Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

To extract the voice of a target speaker when mixed with a variety of other sounds, such as white and ambient noises or the voices of interfering speakers, we extend the Transformer network to attend the most relevant information with…

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AVTSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice in a multi-speaker environment with visual cues as auxiliary. Most of the existing AVTSE methods encode visual and audio features simultaneously,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zixuan Li , Xueliang Zhang , Lei Miao , Zhipeng Yan , Ying Sun , Chong Zhu

Target Language Extraction aims to extract speech in a specific language from a mixture waveform that contains multiple speakers speaking different languages. The human auditory system is adept at performing this task with the knowledge of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Wupeng Wang , Junyi Ao , Haizhou Li

The common target speech separation directly estimate the target source, ignoring the interrelationship between different speakers at each frame. We propose a multiple-target speech separation model (MTSS) to simultaneously extract each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Bang Zeng , Hongbing Suo , Yulong Wan , Ming Li

This paper proposes a novel online audio-visual speaker extraction model. In the streaming regime, most studies optimize the audio network only, leaving the visual frontend less explored. We first propose a lightweight visual frontend based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Zexu Pan , Wupeng Wang , Shengkui Zhao , Chong Zhang , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Bin Ma

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

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ASD workflow where feature learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Juan Leon Alcazar , Moritz Cordes , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

Speech enhancement and speech separation are two related tasks, whose purpose is to extract either one or more target speech signals, respectively, from a mixture of sounds generated by several sources. Traditionally, these tasks have been…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dong Yu , Jesper Jensen

Concurrent Speaker Detection (CSD), the task of identifying active speakers and their overlaps in an audio signal, is essential for various audio applications, including meeting transcription, speaker diarization, and speech separation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Amit Eliav , Sharon Gannot

Overlapping Speech Detection (OSD) aims to identify regions where multiple speakers overlap in a conversation, a critical challenge in multi-party speech processing. This work proposes a speaker-aware progressive OSD model that leverages a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhaokai Sun , Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Pan Zhou , Lei Xie

Conventional audio-visual approaches for active speaker detection (ASD) typically rely on visually pre-extracted face tracks and the corresponding single-channel audio to find the speaker in a video. Therefore, they tend to fail every time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Davide Berghi , Philip J. B. Jackson

We propose a self-speaker adaptation method for streaming multi-talker automatic speech recognition (ASR) that eliminates the need for explicit speaker queries. Unlike conventional approaches requiring target speaker embeddings or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weiqing Wang , Taejin Park , Ivan Medennikov , Jinhan Wang , Kunal Dhawan , He Huang , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

The Audio-Visual Speaker Extraction (AVSE) algorithm employs parallel video recording to leverage two visual cues, namely speaker identity and synchronization, to enhance performance compared to audio-only algorithms. However, the visual…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu pan , Rui Cao , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Shiliang Zhang

This paper delves into the challenging task of Active Speaker Detection (ASD), where the system needs to determine in real-time whether a person is speaking or not in a series of video frames. While previous works have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Arnav Kundu , Yanzi Jin , Mohammad Sekhavat , Max Horton , Danny Tormoen , Devang Naik

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is a technique used to identify and amplify the talker that a listener is focused on in a noisy environment. This is done by comparing the listener's brainwaves to a representation of all the sound sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Cong Han , Vishal Choudhari , Yinghao Aaron Li , Nima Mesgarani

Separating target speech from mixed signals containing flexible speaker quantities presents a challenging task. While existing methods demonstrate strong separation performance and noise robustness, they predominantly assume prior knowledge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Daning Zhang , Ying Wei

Audio-visual learning has demonstrated promising results in many classical speech tasks (e.g., speech separation, automatic speech recognition, wake-word spotting). We believe that introducing visual modality will also benefit speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Ming Cheng , Ming Li