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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

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

While generative models have set new benchmarks for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), their inherent reliance on global context precludes deployment in real-time applications. Direct adaptation to streaming scenarios often leads to…

This paper proposes the target speaker enhancement based speaker verification network (TASE-SVNet), an all neural model that couples target speaker enhancement and speaker embedding extraction for robust speaker verification (SV).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

Sound separation (SS) and target sound extraction (TSE) are fundamental techniques for addressing complex acoustic scenarios. While existing SS methods struggle with determining the unknown number of sound sources, TSE approaches require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Hongyu Wang , Chenda Li , Xin Zhou , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

This paper aims to achieve single-channel target speech extraction (TSE) in enclosures utilizing distance clues and room information. Recent works have verified the feasibility of distance clues for the TSE task, which can imply the sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Runwu Shi , Zirui Lin , Benjamin Yen , Jiang Wang , Ragib Amin Nihal , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Audio-visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker environments by leveraging visual cues as guidance. However, the performance of AV-TSE systems heavily relies on the quality of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junjie Li , Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Zexu Pan , Kong Aik Lee , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

Common target sound extraction (TSE) approaches primarily relied on discriminative approaches in order to separate the target sound while minimizing interference from the unwanted sources, with varying success in separating the target from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Karan Thakkar , Najim Dehak , Mounya Elhilali

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to mimic the human ability to enhance auditory perception using visual cues. Although numerous models have been proposed recently, most of them estimate target signals by primarily…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wenxuan Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Shuai Wang , Jiadong Wang , Lingwei Meng , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

We propose a Beamformer-guided Target Speaker Extraction (BG-TSE) method to extract a target speaker's voice from a multi-channel recording informed by the direction of arrival of the target. The proposed method employs a front-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Mohamed Elminshawi , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction under multi-speaker noisy conditions remains relatively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Linfeng Yu , Heming Wang , Hemin Yang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian

Recent research has delved into speech enhancement (SE) approaches that leverage audio embeddings from pre-trained models, diverging from time-frequency masking or signal prediction techniques. This paper introduces an efficient and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Xingwei Sun , Heinrich Dinkel , Yadong Niu , Linzhang Wang , Junbo Zhang , Jian Luan

This paper presents a novel approach to target speaker extraction (TSE) using Curriculum Learning (CL) techniques, addressing the challenge of distinguishing a target speaker's voice from a mixture containing interfering speakers. For…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Target sound extraction (TSE) consists of isolating a desired sound from a mixture of arbitrary sounds using clues to identify it. A TSE system requires solving two problems at once, identifying the target source and extracting the target…

Target speaker extraction (TSE) focuses on isolating the speech of a specific target speaker from overlapped multi-talker speech, which is a typical setup in the cocktail party problem. In recent years, TSE draws increasing attention due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Shuai Wang , Ke Zhang , Shaoxiong Lin , Junjie Li , Xuefei Wang , Meng Ge , Jianwei Yu , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a desired speaker's voice from a multi-speaker mixture using auxiliary information such as a reference utterance. Although recent advances in diffusion and flow-matching models have improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Riki Shimizu , Xilin Jiang , Nima Mesgarani

Generative target speaker extraction (TSE) methods often produce more natural outputs than predictive models. Recent work based on diffusion or flow matching (FM) typically relies on a small, fixed number of reverse steps with a fixed step…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Tsun-An Hsieh , Minje Kim

Audio-visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to isolate the speech of a specific target speaker from an audio mixture using time-synchronized visual cues. In real-world scenarios, visual cues are not always available due to various…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Man-Wai Mak , Haizhou Li

The brain-assisted target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the attended speech from mixed speech by utilizing the brain neural activities, for example Electroencephalography (EEG). However, existing models overlook the issue of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Cunhang Fan , Ying Chen , Jian Zhou , Zexu Pan , Jingjing Zhang , Youdian Gao , Xiaoke Yang , Zhengqi Wen , Zhao Lv

We propose TSELM, a novel target speaker extraction network that leverages discrete tokens and language models. TSELM utilizes multiple discretized layers from WavLM as input tokens and incorporates cross-attention mechanisms to integrate…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Beilong Tang , Bang Zeng , Ming Li