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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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate individual speaker voices from complex speech environments. The effectiveness of TSE systems is often compromised when the speaker characteristics are similar to each other. Recent research…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

This paper presents a novel approach to target speaker extraction (TSE) using Curriculum Learning (CL) techniques, addressing the challenge of distinguishing a target speaker's voice from a mixture containing interfering speakers. For…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Target sound extraction (TSE) separates the target sound from the mixture signals based on provided clues. However, the performance of existing models significantly degrades under reverberant conditions. Inspired by auditory scene analysis…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yiwen Wang , Xihong Wu

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the target speaker's voice from the input mixture. Previous studies have concentrated on high-overlapping scenarios. However, real-world applications usually meet more complex scenarios like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 He Zhao , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Yuehai Wang

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…

Speaker extraction seeks to extract the target speech in a multi-talker scenario given an auxiliary reference. Such reference can be auditory, i.e., a pre-recorded speech, visual, i.e., lip movements, or contextual, i.e., phonetic sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu Pan , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

Target speech extraction (TSE) extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary clues characterizing the speaker, such as an enrollment utterance. TSE addresses thus the challenging problem of simultaneously performing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Hiroshi Sato , Tomohiro Nakatani

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to recover the speech of a desired speaker from a mixture given a short enrollment utterance, while speech enhancement (SE) focuses on improving speech quality under noisy conditions. Most existing TSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Bang Zeng , Beilong Tang , Wang Xiang , Ming Li

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…

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

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

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

Developing a robust speech emotion recognition (SER) system in noisy conditions faces challenges posed by different noise properties. Most previous studies have not considered the impact of human speech noise, thus limiting the application…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jinyi Mi , Xiaohan Shi , Ding Ma , Jiajun He , Takuya Fujimura , Tomoki Toda

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

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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) focuses on isolating the speech of a specific target speaker from overlapped multi-talker speech, which is a typical setup in the cocktail party problem. In recent years, TSE draws increasing attention due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Shuai Wang , Ke Zhang , Shaoxiong Lin , Junjie Li , Xuefei Wang , Meng Ge , Jianwei Yu , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) plays a critical role in enhancing speech signals in noisy and multi-speaker environments. This paper presents an end-to-end TSE model that incorporates Direction of Arrival (DOA) and beamwidth embeddings to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kangqi Jing , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) models primarily rely on visual cues from the target speaker. However, humans also leverage linguistic knowledge, such as syntactic constraints, next word prediction, and prior knowledge of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li