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This paper introduces an area-based source separation method designed for virtual meeting scenarios. The aim is to preserve speech signals from an unspecified number of sources within a defined spatial area in front of a linear microphone…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Martin Strauss , Okan Köpüklü

This work addresses the problem of multichannel source separation combining two powerful approaches, multichannel spectral factorization with recent monophonic deep-learning (DL) based spectrum inference. Individual source spectra at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Antonio J. Muñoz-Montoro , Julio J. Carabias-Orti , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos

Target speech extraction (TSE) systems are designed to extract target speech from a multi-talker mixture. The popular training objective for most prior TSE networks is to enhance reconstruction performance of extracted speech waveform.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Kai Liu , Ziqing Du , Xucheng Wan , Huan Zhou

This study introduces an online target sound extraction (TSE) process using the similarity-and-independence-aware beamformer (SIBF) derived from an iterative batch algorithm. The study aimed to reduce latency while maintaining extraction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Atsuo Hiroe

Separating an audio scene into isolated sources is a fundamental problem in computer audition, analogous to image segmentation in visual scene analysis. Source separation systems based on deep learning are currently the most successful…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Prem Seetharaman , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux , Bryan Pardo

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

This paper proposes a neural network based speech separation method using spatially distributed microphones. Unlike with traditional microphone array settings, neither the number of microphones nor their spatial arrangement is known in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Dongmei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Although high-fidelity speech can be obtained for intralingual speech synthesis, cross-lingual text-to-speech (CTTS) is still far from satisfactory as it is difficult to accurately retain the speaker timbres(i.e. speaker similarity) and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sen Liu , Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

We present the first neural target speech extraction (TSE) system that uses human feedback for iterative refinement. Our approach allows users to mark specific segments of the TSE output, generating an edit mask. The refinement system then…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Malek Itani , Ashton Graves , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Shyamnath Gollakota

We propose a multi-task universal speech enhancement (MUSE) model that can perform five speech enhancement (SE) tasks: dereverberation, denoising, speech separation (SS), target speaker extraction (TSE), and speaker counting. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-13 Kohei Saijo , Wangyou Zhang , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Tetsunori Kobayashi , Tetsuji Ogawa

In this paper, we propose a model for the Environment Sound Classification Task (ESC) that consists of multiple feature channels given as input to a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with Attention mechanism. The novelty of the paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jivitesh Sharma , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Morten Goodwin

Motivated by the fact that characteristics of different sound classes are highly diverse in different temporal scales and hierarchical levels, a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is proposed for the environmental…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Boqing Zhu , Kele Xu , Dezhi Wang , Lilun Zhang , Bo Li , Yuxing Peng

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

Research on audio clue-based target speaker extraction (TSE) has focused on modeling mixtures and reference speech, achieving strong results in English due to abundant datasets. However, cross-lingual properties remain underexplored, as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 The Hieu Pham , Phuong Thanh Tran Nguyen , Xuan Tho Nguyen , Tan Dat Nguyen , Duc Dung Nguyen

Generating speech across different accents while preserving speaker identity is crucial for various real-world applications. However, accurately and independently modeling both speaker and accent characteristics in text-to-speech (TTS)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Xuehao Zhou , Mingyang Zhang , Yi Zhou , Zhizheng Wu , Haizhou Li

Multi-channel speech enhancement utilizes spatial information from multiple microphones to extract the target speech. However, most existing methods do not explicitly model spatial cues, instead relying on implicit learning from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jiahui Pan , Shulin He , Hui Zhang , Xueliang Zhang

The Goal is to obtain a simple multichannel source separation with very low latency. Applications can be teleconferencing, hearing aids, augmented reality, or selective active noise cancellation. These real time applications need a very low…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Gerald Schuller

This paper describes our submission to the Second Clarity Enhancement Challenge (CEC2), which consists of target speech enhancement for hearing-aid (HA) devices in noisy-reverberant environments with multiple interferers such as music and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Samuele Cornell , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Yoshiki Masuyama , Shinji Watanabe , Manuel Pariente , Nobutaka Ono

Multi-channel speech separation in dynamic environments is challenging as time-varying spatial and spectral features evolve at different temporal scales. Existing methods typically employ sequential architectures, forcing a single network…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

Modern audio source separation techniques rely on optimizing sequence model architectures such as, 1D-CNNs, on mixture recordings to generalize well to unseen mixtures. Specifically, recent focus is on time-domain based architectures such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Sameeksha Katoch , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias