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Humans possess the remarkable ability to selectively attend to a single speaker amidst competing voices and background noise, known as selective auditory attention. Recent studies in auditory neuroscience indicate a strong correlation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Zexu Pan , Marvin Borsdorf , Siqi Cai , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li

In this paper we present a unified time-frequency method for speaker extraction in clean and noisy conditions. Given a mixed signal, along with a reference signal, the common approaches for extracting the desired speaker are either applied…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from multi-speaker mixtures. Despite strong benchmark results, real-world performance often degrades due to different interacting factors. Previous curriculum…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Target confusion, defined as occasional switching to non-target speakers, poses a key challenge for end-to-end speaker extraction (E2E-SE) systems. We argue that this problem is largely caused by the lack of generalizability and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhenghai You , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Speaker-conditioned target speaker extraction systems rely on auxiliary information about the target speaker to extract the target speaker signal from a mixture of multiple speakers. Typically, a deep neural network is applied to isolate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Ragini Sinha , Marvin Tammen , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

Target speaker extraction focuses on extracting a target speech signal from an environment with multiple speakers by leveraging an enrollment. Existing methods predominantly rely on speaker embeddings obtained from the enrollment,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ke Xue , Rongfei Fan , Shanping Yu , Chang Sun , Jianping An

The rapid development of auditory attention decoding (AAD) based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals offers the possibility EEG-driven target speaker extraction. However, how to effectively utilize the target-speaker common information…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Youhao Si , Yuan Liao , Qiushi Han , Yuhang Yang , Rui Dai , Liya Huang

Speaker extraction and diarization are two enabling techniques for real-world speech applications. Speaker extraction aims to extract a target speaker's voice from a speech mixture, while speaker diarization demarcates speech segments by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junyi Ao , Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Target speech separation is the process of filtering a certain speaker's voice out of speech mixtures according to the additional speaker identity information provided. Recent works have made considerable improvement by processing signals…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Qingjian Lin , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Luyuan Xie , Chen Jia , Junjie Wang

This work focuses on the use of acoustic cues for modeling turn-taking in dyadic spoken dialogues. Previous work has shown that speaker intentions (e.g., asking a question, uttering a backchannel, etc.) can influence turn-taking behavior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Zakaria Aldeneh , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Emily Mower Provost

Our goal is to isolate individual speakers from multi-talker simultaneous speech in videos. Existing works in this area have focussed on trying to separate utterances from known speakers in controlled environments. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Triantafyllos Afouras , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

Target speech separation refers to extracting a target speaker's voice from an overlapped audio of simultaneous talkers. Previously the use of visual modality for target speech separation has demonstrated great potentials. This work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Lianwu Chen , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

The speaker extraction technique seeks to single out the voice of a target speaker from the interfering voices in a speech mixture. Typically an auxiliary reference of the target speaker is used to form voluntary attention. Either a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Zexu Pan , Wupeng Wang , Marvin Borsdorf , Haizhou Li

Speech signals are inherently complex as they encompass both global acoustic characteristics and local semantic information. However, in the task of target speech extraction, certain elements of global and local semantic information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Sining Sun , Qing Yang

We propose a novel framework for target speech extraction based on semantic information, called ConceptBeam. Target speech extraction means extracting the speech of a target speaker in a mixture. Typical approaches have been exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Yasunori Ohishi , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Shoko Araki , Daiki Takeuchi , Daisuke Niizumi , Akisato Kimura , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

The goal of dialogue relation extraction (DRE) is to identify the relation between two entities in a given dialogue. During conversations, speakers may expose their relations to certain entities by explicit or implicit clues, such evidences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Po-Wei Lin , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

A judicious combination of dictionary learning methods, block sparsity and source recovery algorithm are used in a hierarchical manner to identify the noises and the speakers from a noisy conversation between two people. Conversations are…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-31 K V Vijay Girish , A G Ramakrishnan , T V Ananthapadmanabha

This paper presents a robust multi-channel speaker extraction algorithm designed to handle inaccuracies in reference information. While existing approaches often rely solely on either spatial or spectral cues to identify the target speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

This paper presents a novel task using real user data obtained in human-machine conversation. The task concerns with denotation extraction from answer hints collected interactively in a dialogue. The task is motivated by the need for large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Miroslav Vodolán , Filip Jurčíček