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Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become a growing focus of research in human-computer interaction. Spatiotemporal features play a crucial role in SER, yet current research lacks comprehensive spatiotemporal feature learning. This paper…

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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…

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Isolating the desired speaker's voice amidst multiplespeakers in a noisy acoustic context is a challenging task. Per-sonalized speech enhancement (PSE) endeavours to achievethis by leveraging prior knowledge of the speaker's voice.Recent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Thomas Serre , Mathieu Fontaine , Éric Benhaim , Geoffroy Dutour , Slim Essid

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate individual speaker voices from complex speech environments. The effectiveness of TSE systems is often compromised when the speaker characteristics are similar to each other. Recent research…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

Speech enhancement (SE) methods mainly focus on recovering clean speech from noisy input. In real-world speech communication, however, noises often exist in not only speaker but also listener environments. Although SE methods can suppress…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Haoyu Li , Yun Liu , Junichi Yamagishi

Target speaker extraction (TSE) is essential in speech processing applications, particularly in scenarios with complex acoustic environments. Current TSE systems face challenges in limited data diversity and a lack of robustness in…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Speech enhancement aims to improve the perceptual quality of the speech signal by suppression of the background noise. However, excessive suppression may lead to speech distortion and speaker information loss, which degrades the performance…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Yi Ma , Kong Aik Lee , Ville Hautamaki , Haizhou Li

Speech emotion recognition (SER) in naturalistic conditions presents a significant challenge for the speech processing community. Challenges include disagreement in labeling among annotators and imbalanced data distributions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thanathai Lertpetchpun , Tiantian Feng , Dani Byrd , Shrikanth Narayanan

Target Speech Extraction (TSE) traditionally relies on explicit clues about the speaker's identity like enrollment audio, face images, or videos, which may not always be available. In this paper, we propose a text-guided TSE model StyleTSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Mingyue Huo , Abhinav Jain , Cong Phuoc Huynh , Fanjie Kong , Pichao Wang , Zhu Liu , Vimal Bhat

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Language Model (LM)-based generative modeling has emerged as a promising direction for TSE, offering potential for improved generalization and high-fidelity speech. We present GenTSE, a two-stage decoder-only generative LM approach for TSE:…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haoyang Li , Xuyi Zhuang , Azmat Adnan , Ye Ni , Wei Rao , Shreyas Gopal , Eng Siong Chng

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

In this paper, we investigate a novel approach for Target Speech Extraction (TSE), which relies solely on textual context to extract the target speech. We refer to this task as Contextual Speech Extraction (CSE). Unlike traditional TSE…

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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…

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

Speaker verification performance in neutral talking environment is usually high, while it is sharply decreased in emotional talking environments. This performance degradation in emotional environments is due to the problem of mismatch…

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Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wupeng Wang , Zexu Pan , Jingru Lin , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Target Sound Extraction (TSE) focuses on the problem of separating sources of interest, indicated by a user's cue, from the input mixture. Most existing solutions operate in an offline fashion and are not suited to the low-latency causal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Shrishail Baligar , Mikolaj Kegler , Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Shawn Newsam

Automatic syllable stress detection is a crucial component in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems for language learners. Current stress detection models are typically trained on clean speech, which may not be robust in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Rangavajjala Sankara Bharadwaj , Jhansi Mallela , Sai Harshitha Aluru , Chiranjeevi Yarra

Joint training of speech enhancement model (SE) and speech recognition model (ASR) is a common solution for robust ASR in noisy environments. SE focuses on improving the auditory quality of speech, but the enhanced feature distribution is…

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