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Language-queried target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract specific sounds from mixtures based on language queries. Traditional fully-supervised training schemes require extensively annotated parallel audio-text data, which are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Hao Ma , Zhiyuan Peng , Xu Li , Yukai Li , Mingjie Shao , Qiuqiang Kong , Ju Liu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech of a target speaker from mixtures containing multiple competing speakers. Conventional TSE systems predominantly rely on speaker cues, such as pre-enrolled speech, to identify and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Haoyu Li , Yu Xi , Yidi Jiang , Shuai Wang , Kate Knill , Mark Gales , Haizhou Li , Kai Yu

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

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to extract the clean speech of the target speaker in an audio mixture, eliminating irrelevant background noise and speech. While prior work has explored various auxiliary cues including pre-recorded…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyang Jiang , Jiahe Lei , Xueyan Chen , Yifan Zhang , Zexu Pan , Wei Xue , Xinyuan Qian

Target speaker extraction (TSE) extracts the target speaker's voice from overlapping speech mixtures given a reference utterance. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories: discriminative and generative. Discriminative methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Junwon Moon , Hyunjin Choi , Hansol Park , Heeseung Kim , Kyuhong Shim

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

Achieving robust and personalized performance in neuro-steered Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) remains a significant challenge for next-generation hearing aids. This is primarily due to two factors: the inherent non-stationarity of EEG…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Qiushi Han , Yuan Liao , Youhao Si , Liya Huang

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

Large-scale pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have shown remarkable advancements in speech-related tasks. However, the utilization of these models in complex multi-talker scenarios, such as extracting a target speaker in a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Junyi Peng , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Oldrich Plchot , Takanori Ashihara , Shoko Araki , Jan Cernocky

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

Diffusion model-based speech enhancement has received increased attention since it can generate very natural enhanced signals and generalizes well to unseen conditions. Diffusion models have been explored for several sub-tasks of speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Naoyuki Kamo , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani

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 sound extraction (TSE) separates the target sound from the mixture signals based on provided clues. However, the performance of existing models significantly degrades under reverberant conditions. Inspired by auditory scene analysis…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yiwen Wang , Xihong Wu

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's speech from a mixture using speaker enrollment as a reference. While most existing approaches are discriminative, recent generative methods for TSE achieve strong results.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Yael Segal-Feldman , Neta Glazer , Gil Hetz , Joseph Keshet

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

Target speech extraction (TSE) focuses on extracting the speech of a specific target speaker from a mixture of signals. Existing TSE models typically utilize static embeddings as conditions for extracting the target speaker's voice.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yiwen Wang , Zeyu Yuan , Xihong Wu

Real-time target speaker extraction (TSE) is intended to extract the desired speaker's voice from the observed mixture of multiple speakers in a streaming manner. Implementing real-time TSE is challenging as the computational complexity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Hiroshi Sato , Takafumi Moriya , Masato Mimura , Shota Horiguchi , Tsubasa Ochiai , Takanori Ashihara , Atsushi Ando , Kentaro Shinayama , Marc Delcroix

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

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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the target speaker's voice from the input mixture. Previous studies have concentrated on high-overlapping scenarios. However, real-world applications usually meet more complex scenarios like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 He Zhao , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Yuehai Wang