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Target speaker extraction focuses on isolating a specific speaker's voice from an audio mixture containing multiple speakers. To provide information about the target speaker's identity, prior works have utilized clean audio samples as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shitong Xu , Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

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

To extract the voice of a target speaker when mixed with a variety of other sounds, such as white and ambient noises or the voices of interfering speakers, we extend the Transformer network to attend the most relevant information with…

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

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

Speaker extraction is to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-talker speech. It simulates humans' cocktail party effect or the selective listening ability. The prior work mostly performs speaker extraction in frequency domain, then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Informed speaker extraction aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixture of sources given prior knowledge about the desired speaker. Recent deep learning-based methods leverage a speaker discriminative model that maps a reference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

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

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

In target speaker extraction, many studies rely on the speaker embedding which is obtained from an enrollment of the target speaker and employed as the guidance. However, solely using speaker embedding may not fully utilize the contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Xue Yang , Changchun Bao , Jing Zhou , Xianhong Chen

Target speech extraction, which extracts a single target source in a mixture given clues about the target speaker, has attracted increasing attention. We have recently proposed SpeakerBeam, which exploits an adaptation utterance of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Keisuke Kinoshita , Naohiro Tawara , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki

The remarkable ability of humans to selectively focus on a target speaker in cocktail party scenarios is facilitated by binaural audio processing. In this paper, we present a binaural time-domain Target Speaker Extraction model based on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Hanyu Meng , Qiquan Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Vidhyasaharan Sethu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah

Speaker extraction aims to extract the target speech signal from a multi-talker environment given a target speaker's reference speech. We recently proposed a time-domain solution, SpEx, that avoids the phase estimation in frequency-domain…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-19 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

Extracting the speech of a target speaker from mixed audios, based on a reference speech from the target speaker, is a challenging yet powerful technology in speech processing. Recent studies of speaker-independent speech separation, such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

Image retrieval using spoken language cues has emerged as a promising direction in multimodal perception, yet leveraging speech in multi-speaker scenarios remains challenging. We propose a novel Target Speaker Speech-Image Retrieval task…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Wenhao Yang , Jianguo Wei , Wenhuan Lu , Xinyue Song , Xianghu Yue

Target speaker extraction is to extract the target speaker, specified by enrollment utterance, in an environment with other competing speakers. Therefore, the task needs to solve two problems, speaker identification and separation, at the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Pengjie Shen , Shulin He , Xueliang Zhang

Teleconferencing is becoming essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in real-world applications, speech quality can deteriorate due to, for example, background interference, noise, or reverberation. To solve this problem, target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Yicheng Hsu , Yonghan Lee , Mingsian R. Bai

Target speaker extraction aims to extract the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker mixture as specified by an auxiliary reference. Most studies focus on the scenario where the target speech is highly overlapped with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Junjie Li , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

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

Target speaker extraction, which aims at extracting a target speaker's voice from a mixture of voices using audio, visual or locational clues, has received much interest. Recently an audio-visual target speaker extraction has been proposed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Shoko Araki
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