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Deep learning speech separation algorithms have achieved great success in improving the quality and intelligibility of separated speech from mixed audio. Most previous methods focused on generating a single-channel output for each of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Cong Han , Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

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…

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

Target-speaker speech recognition aims to recognize target-speaker speech from noisy environments with background noise and interfering speakers. This work presents a joint framework that combines time-domain target-speaker speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jiatong Shi , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Target speaker extraction (TSE) relies on a reference cue of the target to extract the target speech from a speech mixture. While a speaker embedding is commonly used as the reference cue, such embedding pre-trained with a large number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Ke Zhang , Junjie Li , Shuai Wang , Yangjie Wei , Yi Wang , Yannan Wang , Haizhou Li

This paper describes a spatial-aware speaker diarization system for the multi-channel multi-party meeting. The diarization system obtains direction information of speaker by microphone array. Speaker spatial embedding is generated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Feng Tong , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separation (BSS) counterpart with a similar network architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zifeng Zhao , Dongchao Yang , Rongzhi Gu , Haoran Zhang , Yuexian Zou

The human auditory system has the ability to selectively focus on key speech elements in an audio stream while giving secondary attention to less relevant areas such as noise or distortion within the background, dynamically adjusting its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nursadul Mamun , John H. L. Hansen

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) uses a reference cue to extract the target speech from a mixture. In TSE systems relying on audio cues, the speaker embedding from the enrolled speech is crucial to performance. However, these embeddings may…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Wu , Anbin Qi , Yanzhang Xie , Xiang Xie

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 system that separates the voice of a target speaker from multi-speaker signals, by making use of a reference signal from the target speaker. We achieve this by training two separate neural networks: (1) A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Quan Wang , Hannah Muckenhirn , Kevin Wilson , Prashant Sridhar , Zelin Wu , John Hershey , Rif A. Saurous , Ron J. Weiss , Ye Jia , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

Most speech separation methods, trying to separate all channel sources simultaneously, are still far from having enough general- ization capabilities for real scenarios where the number of input sounds is usually uncertain and even dynamic.…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Chenxing Li , Jiaming Xu , Nima Mesgarani , Bo Xu

Extracting the desired speech from a mixture is a meaningful and challenging task. The end-to-end DNN-based methods, though attractive, face the problem of generalization. In this paper, we explore a sequential approach for target speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhaoyi Gu , Lele Liao , Kai Chen , Jing Lu

This paper proposes a method for extracting speaker embedding for each speaker from a variable-length recording containing multiple speakers. Speaker embeddings are crucial not only for speaker recognition but also for various multi-speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Takafumi Moriya , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix

The target speech extraction has attracted widespread attention in recent years. In this work, we focus on investigating the dynamic interaction between different mixtures and the target speaker to exploit the discriminative target speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Jiangyu Han , Wei Rao , Yanhua Long , Jiaen Liang

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

This paper proposes a serialized multi-layer multi-head attention for neural speaker embedding in text-independent speaker verification. In prior works, frame-level features from one layer are aggregated to form an utterance-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hongning Zhu , Kong Aik Lee , Haizhou Li

Most universal sound extraction algorithms focus on isolating a target sound event from single-channel audio mixtures. However, the real world is three-dimensional, and binaural audio, which mimics human hearing, can capture richer spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Zexu Pan , Shengkui Zhao , Yukun Ma , Haoxu Wang , Yiheng Jiang , Biao Tian , Bin Ma

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