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Systematic evaluation of speech separation and enhancement models under moving sound source conditions requires extensive and diverse data. However, real-world datasets often lack sufficient data for training and evaluation, and synthetic…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Kai Li , Wendi Sang , Chang Zeng , Runxuan Yang , Guo Chen , Xiaolin Hu

Speech separation is an essential task for multi-talker speech recognition. Recently many deep learning approaches are proposed and have been constantly refreshing the state-of-the-art performances. The lack of algorithm implementations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Zhaoheng Ni , Michael I Mandel

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

We propose a method of separating a desired sound source from a single-channel mixture, based on either a textual description or a short audio sample of the target source. This is achieved by combining two distinct models. The first model,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Kevin Kilgour , Beat Gfeller , Qingqing Huang , Aren Jansen , Scott Wisdom , Marco Tagliasacchi

Universal source separation targets at separating the audio sources of an arbitrary mix, removing the constraint to operate on a specific domain like speech or music. Yet, the potential of universal source separation is limited because most…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jordi Pons , Xiaoyu Liu , Santiago Pascual , Joan Serrà

How does textual representation of audio relate to the Large Language Model's (LLMs) learning about the audio world? This research investigates the extent to which LLMs can be prompted to generate audio, despite their primary training in…

Query-based audio source extraction seeks to recover a target source from a mixture conditioned on a query. Existing approaches are largely confined to single-channel audio, leaving the spatial information in multi-channel recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Chenxin Yu , Hao Ma , Xu Li , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

We introduce Wavesplit, an end-to-end source separation system. From a single mixture, the model infers a representation for each source and then estimates each source signal given the inferred representations. The model is trained to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Neil Zeghidour , David Grangier

Speech separation is an important problem in speech processing, which targets to separate and generate clean speech from a mixed audio containing speech from different speakers. Empowered by the deep learning technologies over…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Zining Zhang , Bingsheng He , Zhenjie Zhang

In recent years, deep learning based source separation has achieved impressive results. Most studies, however, still evaluate separation models on synthetic datasets, while the performance of state-of-the-art techniques on in-the-wild…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli , Samuele Cornell , François Grondin

The recent surge in open-source Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) frameworks, such as LLaVA, provides a convenient kickoff for artificial intelligence developers and researchers. However, most of the MLLM frameworks take vision as the…

Audio-text retrieval is crucial for bridging acoustic signals and natural language. While contrastive dual-encoder architectures like CLAP have shown promise, they are fundamentally limited by the capacity of small-scale encoders.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jilan Xu , Carl Thomé , Danijela Horak , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Target audio source separation with natural language queries presents a promising paradigm for extracting arbitrary audio events through arbitrary text descriptions. Existing methods mainly face two challenges, the difficulty in jointly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinlei Yin , Xiulian Peng , Xue Jiang , Zhiwei Xiong , Yan Lu

Recent advancements in speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) have attracted considerable attention. Nonetheless, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in adhering to speech instructions. Notably, the intelligence of models…

The increasing prevalence of Large Language Models (LLMs) demands effective safeguards for their operation, particularly concerning their tendency to generate out-of-context responses. A key challenge is accurately detecting when LLMs stray…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jonathan Pan

Integrating audio comprehension and generation into large language models (LLMs) remains challenging due to the continuous nature of audio and the resulting high sampling rates. Here, we introduce a novel approach that combines Variational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Shivam Mehta , Nebojsa Jojic , Hannes Gamper

Audio-visual segmentation aims to separate sounding objects from videos by predicting pixel-level masks based on audio signals. Existing methods primarily concentrate on closed-set scenarios and direct audio-visual alignment and fusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengkai Chen , Yifang Yin , Jinming Cao , Shili Xiang , Zhenguang Liu , Roger Zimmermann

Automated Audio Captioning aims to describe the semantic content of input audio. Recent works have employed large language models (LLMs) as a text decoder to leverage their reasoning capabilities. However, prior approaches that project…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hyeongkeun Lee , Jongmin Choi , KiHyun Nam , Joon Son Chung

Current approaches for large audio language models (LALMs) often rely on closed data sources or proprietary models, limiting their generalization and accessibility. This paper introduces MiDashengLM, a novel open audio-language model…

The Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated supreme capabilities in text understanding and generation, but cannot be directly applied to cross-modal tasks without fine-tuning. This paper proposes a cross-modal in-context learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Dongchao Yang , Haohan Guo , Yuanyuan Wang , Rongjie Huang , Xiang Li , Xu Tan , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng