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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

Automatic target sound extraction (TSE) is a machine learning approach to mimic the human auditory perception capability of attending to a sound source of interest from a mixture of sources. It often uses a model conditioned on a fixed form…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Chenda Li , Yao Qian , Zhuo Chen , Dongmei Wang , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

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

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 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) 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) 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

Target speech extraction (TSE) isolates the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker overlapped speech mixture. Most existing TSE models rely on discriminative methods, typically predicting a time-frequency spectrogram mask for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Hao Ma , Rujin Chen , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Ju Liu , Xuelong 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…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Minsu Kim , Rodrigo Mira , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific voice from multiple mixed speakers relying on a registerd sample. Since voiceprint features usually vary greatly, current end-to-end neural networks require large model parameters…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Shulin He , Jinjiang liu , Hao Li , Yang Yang , Fei Chen , Xueliang Zhang

Pre-trained self-supervised learning (SSL) models have achieved remarkable success in various speech tasks. However, their potential in target speech extraction (TSE) has not been fully exploited. TSE aims to extract the speech of a target…

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

Humans can easily isolate a single speaker from a complex acoustic environment, a capability referred to as the "Cocktail Party Effect." However, replicating this ability has been a significant challenge in the field of target speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiang Hao , Jibin Wu , Jianwei Yu , Chenglin Xu , Kay Chen Tan

In many situations, we would like to hear desired sound events (SEs) while being able to ignore interference. Target sound extraction (TSE) tackles this problem by estimating the audio signal of the sounds of target SE classes in a mixture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Marc Delcroix , Jorge Bennasar Vázquez , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Yasunori Ohishi , Shoko Araki

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

As a practical alternative of speech separation, target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the speech from the desired speaker using additional speaker cue extracted from the speaker. Its main challenge lies in how to properly extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kai Liu , Xucheng Wan , Ziqing Du , Huan Zhou

Target speech extraction (TSE) extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary clues characterizing the speaker, such as an enrollment utterance. TSE addresses thus the challenging problem of simultaneously performing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Hiroshi Sato , Tomohiro Nakatani

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 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 Speech Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple speakers by leveraging speaker-specific cues, typically provided as auxiliary audio (a.k.a. cue audio). Although recent advancements in TSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Helin Wang , Jiarui Hai , Dongchao Yang , Chen Chen , Kai Li , Junyi Peng , Thomas Thebaud , Laureano Moro Velazquez , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak

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
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