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Speaker extraction aims to extract the target speaker's voice from a multi-talker speech mixture given an auxiliary reference utterance. Recent studies show that speaker extraction benefits from the location or direction of the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

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 sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract the sound part of a target sound event class from a mixture audio with multiple sound events. The previous works mainly focus on the problems of weakly-labelled data, jointly learning and new…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Chao Weng , Jianwei Yu , Yuexian Zou

Target speech separation refers to isolating target speech from a multi-speaker mixture signal by conditioning on auxiliary information about the target speaker. Different from the mainstream audio-visual approaches which usually require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Leyuan Qu , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

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

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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific voice from multiple mixed speakers relying on a registerd sample. Since voiceprint features usually vary greatly, current end-to-end neural networks require large model parameters…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shulin He , Jinjiang liu , Hao Li , Yang Yang , Fei Chen , Xueliang Zhang

The performance of speaker verification degrades significantly when the test speech is corrupted by interference speakers. Speaker diarization does well to separate speakers if the speakers are temporally overlapped. However, if…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Wei Rao , Chenglin Xu , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Target speech extraction, which extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary speaker clues, has recently received increased interest. Various clues have been investigated such as pre-recorded enrollment utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Marc Delcroix , Katerina Zmolikova , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tomohiro Nakatani

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 extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

The mechanism proposed here is for real-time speaker change detection in conversations, which firstly trains a neural network text-independent speaker classifier using in-domain speaker data. Through the network, features of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Aravind Ganapathiraju

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

The difficulty of acquiring abundant, high-quality data, especially in multi-lingual contexts, has sparked interest in addressing low-resource scenarios. Moreover, current literature rely on fixed expressions from language IDs, which…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Youngjae Kim , Yejin Jeon , Gary Geunbae Lee

Under noisy environments, to achieve the robust performance of speaker recognition is still a challenging task. Motivated by the promising performance of multi-task training in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianfeng Zhou , Tao Jiang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Zhe Wang , Bingyin Xia

Speaker extraction aims to mimic humans' selective auditory attention by extracting a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker environment. It is common to perform the extraction in frequency-domain, and reconstruct the time-domain signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Speaker-aware source separation methods are promising workarounds for major difficulties such as arbitrary source permutation and unknown number of sources. However, it remains challenging to achieve satisfying performance provided a very…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jun Wang , Jie Chen , Dan Su , Lianwu Chen , Meng Yu , Yanmin Qian , Dong Yu

Human talkers often address listeners with language-comprehension challenges, such as hard-of-hearing or non-native adults, by globally slowing down their speech. However, it remains unclear whether this strategy actually makes speech more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Paige Tuttösí , Angelica Lim , H. Henny Yeung , Yue Wang , Jean-Julien Aucouturier

We propose a novel approach that utilizes inter-speaker relative cues to distinguish target speakers and extract their voices from mixtures. Continuous cues (e.g., temporal order, age, pitch level) are grouped by relative differences, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Wang Dai , Archontis Politis , Tuomas Virtanen

Information extraction from conversational data is particularly challenging because the task-centric nature of conversation allows for effective communication of implicit information by humans, but is challenging for machines. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Sopan Khosla , Shikhar Vashishth , Jill Fain Lehman , Carolyn Rose