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Target speaker extraction (TSE) relies on a reference cue of the target to extract the target speech from a speech mixture. While a speaker embedding is commonly used as the reference cue, such embedding pre-trained with a large number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Ke Zhang , Junjie Li , Shuai Wang , Yangjie Wei , Yi Wang , Yannan Wang , Haizhou Li

Target speaker extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

We propose listen to extract (LExt), a highly-effective while extremely-simple algorithm for monaural target speaker extraction (TSE). Given an enrollment utterance of a target speaker, LExt aims at extracting the target speaker from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Pengjie Shen , Kangrui Chen , Shulin He , Pengru Chen , Shuqi Yuan , He Kong , Xueliang Zhang , Zhong-Qiu Wang

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

Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tongtao Ling , Shulin He , Pengjie Shen , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a specific speaker's voice from multi-speaker mixtures. Despite strong benchmark results, real-world performance often degrades due to different interacting factors. Previous curriculum…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yun Liu , Xuechen Liu , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the target speaker's voice from the input mixture. Previous studies have concentrated on high-overlapping scenarios. However, real-world applications usually meet more complex scenarios like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 He Zhao , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Yuehai Wang

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to recover the speech of a desired speaker from a mixture given a short enrollment utterance, while speech enhancement (SE) focuses on improving speech quality under noisy conditions. Most existing TSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Bang Zeng , Beilong Tang , Wang Xiang , Ming Li

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

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

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

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…

Target speaker extraction (TSE) focuses on isolating the speech of a specific target speaker from overlapped multi-talker speech, which is a typical setup in the cocktail party problem. In recent years, TSE draws increasing attention due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Shuai Wang , Ke Zhang , Shaoxiong Lin , Junjie Li , Xuefei Wang , Meng Ge , Jianwei Yu , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Developing a robust speech emotion recognition (SER) system in noisy conditions faces challenges posed by different noise properties. Most previous studies have not considered the impact of human speech noise, thus limiting the application…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jinyi Mi , Xiaohan Shi , Ding Ma , Jiajun He , Takuya Fujimura , Tomoki Toda

Humans can listen to a target speaker even in challenging acoustic conditions that have noise, reverberation, and interfering speakers. This phenomenon is known as the cocktail-party effect. For decades, researchers have focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Katerina Zmolikova , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Jan Černocký , Dong Yu

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

We propose a Beamformer-guided Target Speaker Extraction (BG-TSE) method to extract a target speaker's voice from a multi-channel recording informed by the direction of arrival of the target. The proposed method employs a front-end…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Mohamed Elminshawi , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Emanuël A. P. Habets

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

Target speaker extraction focuses on isolating a specific speaker's voice from an audio mixture containing multiple speakers. To provide information about the target speaker's identity, prior works have utilized clean audio samples as…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shitong Xu , Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) aims to extract the specific person's speech from the audio mixture given auxiliary visual cues. Previous methods usually search for the target voice through speech-lip synchronization.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Yidi Jiang , Junjie Li , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li