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Language-queried target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract specific sounds from mixtures based on language queries. Traditional fully-supervised training schemes require extensively annotated parallel audio-text data, which are…

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

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

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

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

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention in speech processing, excelling in linguistic tasks such as speech recognition. However, jointly improving the performance of pre-trained models on various downstream tasks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Tianrui Wang , Jin Li , Ziyang Ma , Rui Cao , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Meng Ge , Xiaobao Wang , Yuguang Wang , Jianwu Dang , Nyima Tashi

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have proven to be very successful in automatic speech recognition (ASR). These great improvements have been reported mostly based on highly curated datasets such as LibriSpeech for non-streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mostafa Karimi , Changliang Liu , Kenichi Kumatani , Yao Qian , Tianyu Wu , Jian Wu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) is a technique for isolating a target speaker's voice from mixed speech using auxiliary features associated with the target speaker. It is another attempt at addressing the cocktail party problem and is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chang Sun , Bo Qin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech pre-training has attracted much attention for its capability of extracting rich representations learned from massive unlabeled data. On the other hand, the use of weakly-supervised data is less…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Wangyou Zhang , Yanmin Qian

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

Target sound extraction (TSE) consists of isolating a desired sound from a mixture of arbitrary sounds using clues to identify it. A TSE system requires solving two problems at once, identifying the target source and extracting the target…

We present the first neural target speech extraction (TSE) system that uses human feedback for iterative refinement. Our approach allows users to mark specific segments of the TSE output, generating an edit mask. The refinement system then…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Malek Itani , Ashton Graves , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Shyamnath Gollakota

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful technique for learning representations from unlabeled data. Transformer based models such as HuBERT, which consist a feature extractor and transformer layers, are leading the field in the speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Zih-Ching Chen , Yu-Shun Sung , Hung-yi Lee

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) models have been successfully applied in various deep learning-based speech tasks, particularly those with a limited amount of data. However, the quality of SSL representations depends highly on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Dan Berrebbi , Jiatong Shi , Brian Yan , Osbel Lopez-Francisco , Jonathan D. Amith , Shinji Watanabe

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

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models reshaped our approach to speech, language and vision. However their huge size and the opaque relations between their layers and tasks result in slow inference and network overthinking, where predictions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Dan Berrebbi , Brian Yan , Shinji Watanabe

Self-supervised learning (SSL) representation for speech has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on several downstream tasks. However, there remains room for improvement in speech enhancement (SE) tasks. In this study, we used a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Szu-wei Fu , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Tien Chiang , Yu Tsao , Chii-Wann Lin