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It is common in everyday spoken communication that we look at the turning head of a talker to listen to his/her voice. Humans see the talker to listen better, so do machines. However, previous studies on audio-visual speaker extraction have…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Qinghua Liu , Meng Ge , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

Multi-channel multi-talker speech recognition presents formidable challenges in the realm of speech processing, marked by issues such as background noise, reverberation, and overlapping speech. Overcoming these complexities requires…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Yiwen Shao

Overlapped speech is notoriously problematic for speaker diarization systems. Consequently, the use of speech separation has recently been proposed to improve their performance. Although promising, speech separation models struggle with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Elio Gruttadauria , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid

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

Most current speech technology systems are designed to operate well even in the presence of multiple active speakers. However, most solutions assume that the number of co-current speakers is known. Unfortunately, this information might not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hansen

Although automatic speech recognition (ASR) can perform well in common non-overlapping environments, sustaining performance in multi-talker overlapping speech recognition remains challenging. Recent research revealed that ASR model's…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Lingwei Meng , Jiawen Kang , Mingyu Cui , Yuejiao Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Large-scale pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown remarkable advancements in speech-related tasks. However, the utilization of these models in complex multi-talker scenarios, such as extracting a target speaker in a…

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

Determining 'who spoke what and when' remains challenging in real-world applications. In typical scenarios, Speaker Diarization (SD) is employed to address the problem of 'who spoke when,' while Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) or Target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models achieve promising results compared with unconditional speech enhancement models due to their ability to remove interfering speech in addition to background noise. Unlike unconditional speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Hassan Taherian , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka

Recently, the research on ad-hoc microphone arrays with deep learning has drawn much attention, especially in speech enhancement and separation. Because an ad-hoc microphone array may cover such a large area that multiple speakers may…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ziye Yang , Shanzheng Guan , Xiao-Lei Zhang

The remarkable ability of humans to selectively focus on a target speaker in cocktail party scenarios is facilitated by binaural audio processing. In this paper, we present a binaural time-domain Target Speaker Extraction model based on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Hanyu Meng , Qiquan Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Although recent advances in deep learning technology have boosted automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in the single-talker case, it remains difficult to recognize multi-talker speech in which many voices overlap. One conventional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takahiro Shinozaki

Our objective is to transform a video into a set of discrete audio-visual objects using self-supervised learning. To this end, we introduce a model that uses attention to localize and group sound sources, and optical flow to aggregate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Triantafyllos Afouras , Andrew Owens , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Target speech extraction (TSE) focuses on extracting the speech of a specific target speaker from a mixture of signals. Existing TSE models typically utilize static embeddings as conditions for extracting the target speaker's voice.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yiwen Wang , Zeyu Yuan , Xihong Wu

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

This paper addresses the problem of single-channel speech separation, where the number of speakers is unknown, and each speaker may speak multiple utterances. We propose a speech separation model that simultaneously performs separation,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper presents our latest investigation on end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) for overlapped speech. We propose to train an end-to-end system conditioned on speaker embeddings and further improved by transfer learning from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Pavel Denisov , Ngoc Thang Vu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We introduce a new efficient framework, the Unified Context Network (UniCon), for robust active speaker detection (ASD). Traditional methods for ASD usually operate on each candidate's pre-cropped face track separately and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yuanhang Zhang , Susan Liang , Shuang Yang , Xiao Liu , Zhongqin Wu , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for many real-world applications, but it requires dedicated modeling techniques. Existing approaches can be divided into modular and end-to-end methods. Modular approaches separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Simon Berger , Peter Vieting , Christoph Boeddeker , Ralf Schlüter , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach