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Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Synthetic data generation is increasingly used in machine learning for training and data augmentation. Yet, current strategies often rely on external foundation models or datasets, whose usage is restricted in many scenarios due to policy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Sebastien Marcel

The paper introduces Diff-Filter, a multichannel speech enhancement approach based on the diffusion probabilistic model, for improving speaker verification performance under noisy and reverberant conditions. It also presents a new two-step…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Sandipana Dowerah , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Romain Serizel , Denis Jouvet

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

Speaker extraction requires a sample speech from the target speaker as the reference. However, enrolling a speaker with a long speech is not practical. We propose a speaker extraction technique, that performs in multiple stages to take full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

Diffusion probabilistic models have demonstrated an outstanding capability to model natural images and raw audio waveforms through a paired diffusion and reverse processes. The unique property of the reverse process (namely, eliminating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yen-Ju Lu , Yu Tsao , Shinji Watanabe

The previous SpEx+ has yielded outstanding performance in speaker extraction and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters inadequate utilization of multi-scale information and speaker embedding. To this end, this paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jun Chen , Wei Rao , Zilin Wang , Jiuxin Lin , Yukai Ju , Shulin He , Yannan Wang , Zhiyong Wu

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even outperform their predictive counterparts for non-additive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Timo Gerkmann

Recently, attention-based transformers have become a de facto standard in many deep learning applications including natural language processing, computer vision, signal processing, etc.. In this paper, we propose a transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tathagata Bandyopadhyay

Speech enhancement is a critical component of many user-oriented audio applications, yet current systems still suffer from distorted and unnatural outputs. While generative models have shown strong potential in speech synthesis, they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Yen-Ju Lu , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Alexander Richard , Cheng Yu , Yu Tsao

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

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have recently achieved leading performances in many generative tasks. However, the inherited iterative sampling process costs hindered their applications to speech synthesis. This paper…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-22 Rongjie Huang , Max W. Y. Lam , Jun Wang , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Yi Ren , Zhou Zhao

Being a form of biometric identification, the security of the speaker identification (SID) system is of utmost importance. To better understand the robustness of SID systems, we aim to perform more realistic attacks in SID, which are…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Qing Wang , Jixun Yao , Zhaokai Sun , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie , John H. L. Hansen

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

In this paper, we present a novel multi-channel speech extraction system to simultaneously extract multiple clean individual sources from a mixture in noisy and reverberant environments. The proposed method is built on an improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

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

Speaker-aware source separation methods are promising workarounds for major difficulties such as arbitrary source permutation and unknown number of sources. However, it remains challenging to achieve satisfying performance provided a very…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jun Wang , Jie Chen , Dan Su , Lianwu Chen , Meng Yu , Yanmin Qian , Dong Yu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminative, recent generative methods for TSE achieve strong results.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Yael Segal-Feldman , Neta Glazer , Gil Hetz , Joseph Keshet