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The goal of speech separation is to extract multiple speech sources from a single microphone recording. Recently, with the advancement of deep learning and availability of large datasets, speech separation has been formulated as a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Midia Yousefi , John H. L. Hansen

We present an upper bound for the Single Channel Speech Separation task, which is based on an assumption regarding the nature of short segments of speech. Using the bound, we are able to show that while the recent methods have made…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Despite the recent success of speech separation models, they fail to separate sources properly while facing different sets of people or noisy environments. To tackle this problem, we proposed to apply meta-learning to the speech separation…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yuan-Kuei Wu , Kuan-Po Huang , Yu Tsao , Hung-yi Lee

In recent years, much speech separation research has focused primarily on improving model performance. However, for low-latency speech processing systems, high efficiency is equally important. Therefore, we propose a speech separation model…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mohan Xu , Kai Li , Guo Chen , Xiaolin Hu

This paper proposes a neural network based speech separation method using spatially distributed microphones. Unlike with traditional microphone array settings, neither the number of microphones nor their spatial arrangement is known in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Dongmei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Advancements in deep learning and voice-activated technologies have driven the development of human-vehicle interaction. Distributed microphone arrays are widely used in in-car scenarios because they can accurately capture the voices of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Ziqian Wang , Jiayao Sun , Zihan Zhang , Xingchen Li , Jie Liu , Lei Xie

Multi-speaker speech recognition has been one of the keychallenges in conversation transcription as it breaks the singleactive speaker assumption employed by most state-of-the-artspeech recognition systems. Speech separation is consideredas…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Jian Wu , Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Zhili Tan , Ed Lin , Yi Luo , Lei Xie

In noisy and reverberant environments, the performance of deep learning-based speech separation methods drops dramatically because previous methods are not designed and optimized for such situations. To address this issue, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Xiangyuan Yang , Wenjing Zhu

Cocktail party problem is the scenario where it is difficult to separate or distinguish individual speaker from a mixed speech from several speakers. There have been several researches going on in this field but the size and complexity of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-19 S. Rijal , R. Neupane , S. P. Mainali , S. K. Regmi , S. Maharjan

This paper introduces a new method for multi-channel time domain speech separation in reverberant environments. A fully-convolutional neural network structure has been used to directly separate speech from multiple microphone recordings,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Jisi Zhang , Catalin Zorila , Rama Doddipatla , Jon Barker

This paper targets a new scenario that integrates speech separation with speech compression, aiming to disentangle multiple speakers while producing discrete representations for efficient transmission or storage, with applications in online…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Hui-Peng Du , Yang Ai , Xiao-Hang Jiang , Rui-Chen Zheng , Zhen-Hua Ling

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Single-channel, speaker-independent speech separation methods have recently seen great progress. However, the accuracy, latency, and computational cost of such methods remain insufficient. The majority of the previous methods have…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Yi Luo , Nima Mesgarani

Low power deep learning accelerators on the speech processing enable real-time applications on edge devices. However, most of the existing accelerators suffer from high power consumption and focus on image applications only. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Chih-Chyau Yang , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Speech separation refers to extracting each individual speech source in a given mixed signal. Recent advancements in speech separation and ongoing research in this area, have made these approaches as promising techniques for pre-processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , John H. L. Hansen , Dong Yu

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

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

Although deep learning has substantially advanced speech separation in recent years, most existing studies continue to prioritize separation quality while overlooking computational efficiency, an essential factor for low-latency speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuqi Li , Kai Li , Xin Yin , Zhifei Yang , Junhao Dong , Zeyu Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Yingli Tian , Yao Lu

In this paper we propose a method of single-channel speaker-independent multi-speaker speech separation for an unknown number of speakers. As opposed to previous works, in which the number of speakers is assumed to be known in advance and…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Naoya Takahashi , Sudarsanam Parthasaarathy , Nabarun Goswami , Yuki Mitsufuji

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić