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Recently, deep learning-based beamforming algorithms have shown promising performance in target speech extraction tasks. However, most systems do not fully utilize spatial information. In this paper, we propose a target speech extraction…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Aoqi Guo , Junnan Wu , Peng Gao , Wenbo Zhu , Qinwen Guo , Dazhi Gao , Yujun Wang

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

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

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

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

Transformer-based models have been achieving state-of-the-art results in several fields of Natural Language Processing. However, its direct application to speech tasks is not trivial. The nature of this sequences carries problems such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gerard Sant , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Marta R. Costa-Jussà

Continuous speech separation plays a vital role in complicated speech related tasks such as conversation transcription. The separation model extracts a single speaker signal from a mixed speech. In this paper, we use transformer and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Jian Wu , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Ming Zhou

Extracting the speech of participants in a conversation amidst interfering speakers and noise presents a challenging problem. In this paper, we introduce the novel task of target conversation extraction, where the goal is to extract the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Tuochao Chen , Qirui Wang , Bohan Wu , Malek Itani , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Shyamnath Gollakota

We propose a novel speech separation model designed to separate mixtures with an unknown number of speakers. The proposed model stacks 1) a dual-path processing block that can model spectro-temporal patterns, 2) a transformer decoder-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Younglo Lee , Shukjae Choi , Byeong-Yeol Kim , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe

Most state-of-the-art Deep Learning (DL) approaches for speaker recognition work on a short utterance level. Given the speech signal, these algorithms extract a sequence of speaker embeddings from short segments and those are averaged to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Miquel India , Pooyan Safari , Javier Hernando

Recently, cycle-consistent adversarial network (Cycle-GAN) has been successfully applied to voice conversion to a different speaker without parallel data, although in those approaches an individual model is needed for each target speaker.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ju-chieh Chou , Cheng-chieh Yeh , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

For supervised speech enhancement, contextual information is important for accurate spectral mapping. However, commonly used deep neural networks (DNNs) are limited in capturing temporal contexts. To leverage long-term contexts for tracking…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Xinmeng Xu , Jianjun Hao

Machine recognition of an atypical speech like whispered speech, is a challenging task. We introduce whisper-to-natural-speech conversion using sequence-to-sequence approach by proposing enhanced transformer architecture, which uses both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Abhishek Niranjan , Mukesh Sharma , Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , M Ali Basha Shaik

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

This paper proposes an interesting voice and accent joint conversion approach, which can convert an arbitrary source speaker's voice to a target speaker with non-native accent. This problem is challenging as each target speaker only has…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Zhichao Wang , Wenshuo Ge , Xiong Wang , Shan Yang , Wendong Gan , Haitao Chen , Hai Li , Lei Xie , Xiulin Li

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

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

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

The end-to-end approaches for single-channel target speech extraction have attracted widespread attention. However, the studies for end-to-end multi-channel target speech extraction are still relatively limited. In this work, we propose two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Jiangyu Han , Xinyuan Zhou , Yanhua Long , Yijie Li

Recently, there has been growing interest in multi-speaker speech recognition, where the utterances of multiple speakers are recognized from their mixture. Promising techniques have been proposed for this task, but earlier works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Hiroshi Seki , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux , John R. Hershey