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We present an upper bound for the Single Channel Speech Separation task, which is based on an assumption regarding the nature of short segments of speech. Using the bound, we are able to show that while the recent methods have made…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller

This paper aims to achieve single-channel target speech extraction (TSE) in enclosures by solely utilizing distance information. This is the first work that utilizes only distance cues without using speaker physiological information for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Runwu Shi , Benjamin Yen , Kazuhiro Nakadai

Although deep-learning-based methods have markedly improved the performance of speech separation over the past few years, it remains an open question how to integrate multi-channel signals for speech separation. We propose two methods,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Yuichiro Koyama , Oluwafemi Azeez , Bhiksha Raj

For speech-related applications in IoT environments, identifying effective methods to handle interference noises and compress the amount of data in transmissions is essential to achieve high-quality services. In this study, we propose a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 You-Jin Li , Syu-Siang Wang , Yu Tsao , Borching Su

Recently, there has been growing interest in multi-speaker speech recognition, where the utterances of multiple speakers are recognized from their mixture. Promising techniques have been proposed for this task, but earlier works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Hiroshi Seki , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux , John R. Hershey

The end-to-end approach for single-channel speech separation has been studied recently and shown promising results. This paper extended the previous approach and proposed a new end-to-end model for multi-channel speech separation. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Rongzhi Gu , Jian Wu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu , Meng Yu , Dan Su , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Speech separation is a fundamental task in audio processing, typically addressed with fully supervised systems trained on paired mixtures. While effective, such systems typically rely on synthetic data pipelines, which may not reflect…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Runwu Shi , Kai Li , Chang Li , Jiang Wang , Sihan Tan , Kazuhiro Nakadai

This paper addresses unsupervised diffusion-based single-channel speech enhancement (SE). Prior work in this direction combines a score-based diffusion model trained on clean speech with a Gaussian noise model whose covariance is structured…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jean-Eudes Ayilo , Mostafa Sadeghi , Romain Serizel , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

While existing Audio-Visual Speech Separation (AVSS) methods primarily concentrate on the audio-visual fusion strategy for two-speaker separation, they demonstrate a severe performance drop in the multi-speaker separation scenarios.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Tianrui Pan , Jie Liu , Bohan Wang , Jie Tang , Gangshan Wu

Real-world audio recordings often contain multiple speakers and various degradations, which limit both the quantity and quality of speech data available for building state-of-the-art speech processing models. Although end-to-end approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kohei Asai , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

The presence of multiple talkers in the surrounding environment poses a difficult challenge for real-time speech communication systems considering the constraints on network size and complexity. In this paper, we present Personalized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Ritwik Giri , Shrikant Venkataramani , Jean-Marc Valin , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy

In a multi-channel separation task with multiple speakers, we aim to recover all individual speech signals from the mixture. In contrast to single-channel approaches, which rely on the different spectro-temporal characteristics of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

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

Sound separation (SS) and target sound extraction (TSE) are fundamental techniques for addressing complex acoustic scenarios. While existing SS methods struggle with determining the unknown number of sound sources, TSE approaches require…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Hongyu Wang , Chenda Li , Xin Zhou , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Target speaker extraction (TSE) is a technique for isolating a target speaker's voice from mixed speech using auxiliary features associated with the target speaker. It is another attempt at addressing the cocktail party problem and is…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Chang Sun , Bo Qin

Transformer has shown advanced performance in speech separation, benefiting from its ability to capture global features. However, capturing local features and channel information of audio sequences in speech separation is equally important.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Wenjing Zhu

With its strong modeling capacity that comes from a multi-head and multi-layer structure, Transformer is a very powerful model for learning a sequential representation and has been successfully applied to speech separation recently.…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani