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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

In target speaker extraction (TSE), we aim to recover target speech from a multi-talker mixture using a short enrollment utterance as reference. Recent studies on diffusion and flow-matching generators have improved target-speech fidelity.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Duojia Li , Shuhan Zhang , Zihan Qian , Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Haizhou Li

Speaker extraction aims to mimic humans' selective auditory attention by extracting a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker environment. It is common to perform the extraction in frequency-domain, and reconstruct the time-domain signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Speaker-conditioned target speaker extraction systems rely on auxiliary information about the target speaker to extract the target speaker signal from a mixture of multiple speakers. Typically, a deep neural network is applied to isolate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Ragini Sinha , Marvin Tammen , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

Target sound extraction consists of extracting the sound of a target acoustic event (AE) class from a mixture of AE sounds. It can be realized using a neural network that extracts the target sound conditioned on a 1-hot vector that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Marc Delcroix , Jorge Bennasar Vázquez , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shoko Araki

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

A speaker extraction algorithm seeks to extract the speech of a target speaker from a multi-talker speech mixture when given a cue that represents the target speaker, such as a pre-enrolled speech utterance, or an accompanying video track.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Zexu Pan , Ruijie Tao , Chenglin Xu , Haizhou Li

This paper proposes the target speaker enhancement based speaker verification network (TASE-SVNet), an all neural model that couples target speaker enhancement and speaker embedding extraction for robust speaker verification (SV).…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Chao Weng , Dong Yu

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

Target speech extraction (TSE) has achieved strong performance in relatively simple conditions such as one-speaker-plus-noise and two-speaker mixtures, but its performance remains unsatisfactory in noisy multi-speaker scenarios. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Ziling Huang , Junnan Wu , Lichun Fan , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

The primary goal of multi-modal TSE (MTSE) is to extract a target speaker from a speech mixture using complementary information from different modalities, such as audio enrolment and visual feeds corresponding to the target speaker. MTSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Srikanth Korse , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuel A. P. Habets , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli

We introduce a monaural neural speaker embeddings extractor that computes an embedding for each speaker present in a speech mixture. To allow for supervised training, a teacher-student approach is employed: the teacher computes the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) plays a critical role in enhancing speech signals in noisy and multi-speaker environments. This paper presents an end-to-end TSE model that incorporates Direction of Arrival (DOA) and beamwidth embeddings to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Kangqi Jing , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao

To extract the voice of a target speaker when mixed with a variety of other sounds, such as white and ambient noises or the voices of interfering speakers, we extend the Transformer network to attend the most relevant information with…

Speaker extraction algorithm relies on the speech sample from the target speaker as the reference point to focus its attention. Such a reference speech is typically pre-recorded. On the other hand, the temporal synchronization between…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Zexu Pan , Ruijie Tao , Chenglin Xu , Haizhou Li

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from a mixture, guided by a pre-recorded enrollment. While TSE bypasses the global permutation ambiguity of blind source separation, it remains vulnerable to speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Zikai Liu , Ziqian Wang , Xingchen Li , Yike Zhu , Shuai Wang , Longshuai Xiao , Lei Xie

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

Speaker extraction is to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-talker speech. It simulates humans' cocktail party effect or the selective listening ability. The prior work mostly performs speaker extraction in frequency domain, then…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

Target confusion, defined as occasional switching to non-target speakers, poses a key challenge for end-to-end speaker extraction (E2E-SE) systems. We argue that this problem is largely caused by the lack of generalizability and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhenghai You , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

We propose TSELM, a novel target speaker extraction network that leverages discrete tokens and language models. TSELM utilizes multiple discretized layers from WavLM as input tokens and incorporates cross-attention mechanisms to integrate…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Beilong Tang , Bang Zeng , Ming Li