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The CEEMDAN algorithm is one of the modern methods used in the analysis of non-stationary signals. This research presents a study of the effectiveness of this method in audio source separation to know the limits of its work. It concluded…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Rawad Melhem , Riad Hamadeh , Assef Jafar

Speech separation involves extracting an individual speaker's voice from a multi-speaker audio signal. The increasing complexity of real-world environments, where multiple speakers might converse simultaneously, underscores the importance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Renana Opochinsky , Mordehay Moradi , Sharon Gannot

Speech enhancement and separation are two fundamental tasks for robust speech processing. Speech enhancement suppresses background noise while speech separation extracts target speech from interfering speakers. Despite a great number of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Shu-wen Yang , Paola Garcia , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Previous audio-visual speech separation methods use the synchronization of the speaker's facial movement and speech in the video to supervise the speech separation in a self-supervised way. In this paper, we propose a model to solve the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Jiasong Wu , Xuan Li , Taotao Li , Fanman Meng , Youyong Kong , Guanyu Yang , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

In this note, we propose to use TasTas \cite{shi2020speech} for the end-to-end approach to monaural speech separation in the pre-cocktail party problem. Our experiments on the public WSJ0-5mix data corpus results in 10.41dB SDR improvement.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Ziqiang Shi , Jiqing Han

This paper addresses the challenge of audio-visual single-microphone speech separation and enhancement in the presence of real-world environmental noise. Our approach is based on generative inverse sampling, where we model clean speech and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yochai Yemini , Yoav Ellinson , Rami Ben-Ari , Sharon Gannot , Ethan Fetaya

Current deep neural network (DNN) based speech separation faces a fundamental challenge -- while the models need to be trained on short segments due to computational constraints, real-world applications typically require processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yuzhu Wang , Archontis Politis , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

While recent progresses in neural network approaches to single-channel speech separation, or more generally the cocktail party problem, achieved significant improvement, their performance for complex mixtures is still not satisfactory. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Zhuo Chen , Jinyu Li , Xiong Xiao , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Zhenghao Wang , Yifan Gong

Advancements in spoken language technologies for neurodegenerative speech disorders are crucial for meeting both clinical and technological needs. This overview paper is vital for advancing the field, as it presents a comprehensive review…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md. Sahidullah , Ina Kodrasi

Convolutional deep neural networks (DNN) are state of the art in many engineering problems but have not yet addressed the issue of how to deal with complex spectrograms. Here, we use circular statistics to provide a convenient probabilistic…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

Recent deep learning approaches have achieved impressive performance on speech enhancement and separation tasks. However, these approaches have not been investigated for separating mixtures of arbitrary sounds of different types, a task we…

Recently, deep clustering (DPCL) based speaker-independent speech separation has drawn much attention, since it needs little speaker prior information. However, it still has much room of improvement, particularly in reverberant…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Ziye Yang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Most existing deep learning based binaural speaker separation systems focus on producing a monaural estimate for each of the target speakers, and thus do not preserve the interaural cues, which are crucial for human listeners to perform…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Ke Tan , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar , Eliya Nachmani , Yossi Adi

This work introduces sequential neural beamforming, which alternates between neural network based spectral separation and beamforming based spatial separation. Our neural networks for separation use an advanced convolutional architecture…

Encouraged by the success of deep neural networks on a variety of visual tasks, much theoretical and experimental work has been aimed at understanding and interpreting how vision networks operate. Meanwhile, deep neural networks have also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Cory Stephenson , Jenelle Feather , Suchismita Padhy , Oguz Elibol , Hanlin Tang , Josh McDermott , SueYeon Chung

Recent progress in separating the speech signals from multiple overlapping speakers using a single audio channel has brought us closer to solving the cocktail party problem. However, most studies in this area use a constrained problem…

Dialogue disentanglement aims to detach the chronologically ordered utterances into several independent sessions. Conversation utterances are essentially organized and described by the underlying discourse, and thus dialogue disentanglement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Bobo Li , Hao Fei , Fei Li , Shengqiong Wu , Lizi Liao , Yinwei Wei , Tat-Seng Chua , Donghong Ji

The problem of speech separation, also known as the cocktail party problem, refers to the task of isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of speech signals. Previous work on source separation derived an upper bound for the source…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Streaming recognition and segmentation of multi-party conversations with overlapping speech is crucial for the next generation of voice assistant applications. In this work we address its challenges discovered in the previous work on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Christian Osendorfer