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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

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

Generative models have excelled in audio tasks using approaches such as language models, diffusion, and flow matching. However, existing generative approaches for speech enhancement (SE) face notable challenges: language model-based methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Xinfa Zhu , Yike Zhu , Mingshuai Liu , Jun Chen , Longshuai Xiao , Chao Weng , Lei Xie

Generative modeling has recently achieved remarkable success across image, video, and audio domains, demonstrating powerful capabilities for unified representation learning. Yet speech front-end tasks such as speech enhancement (SE), target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Ziqian Wang , Zikai Liu , Yike Zhu , Xingchen Li , Boyi Kang , Jixun Yao , Xianjun Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Lei Xie

Although diffusion models in text-to-speech have become a popular choice due to their strong generative ability, the intrinsic complexity of sampling from diffusion models harms their efficiency. Alternatively, we propose VoiceFlow, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Yiwei Guo , Chenpeng Du , Ziyang Ma , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

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

Generative models have attracted considerable attention for speech separation tasks, and among these, diffusion-based methods are being explored. Despite the notable success of diffusion techniques in generation tasks, their adaptation to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jinwei Dong , Xinsheng Wang , Qirong Mao

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

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

Personalized or target speech extraction (TSE) typically needs a clean enrollment -- hard to obtain in real-world crowded environments. We remove the essential need for enrollment by predicting, from the mixture itself, a small set of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 FNU Sidharth , Meysam Asgari , Hao-Wen Dong , Dhruv Jain

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 Sound Extraction (TSE) focuses on the problem of separating sources of interest, indicated by a user's cue, from the input mixture. Most existing solutions operate in an offline fashion and are not suited to the low-latency causal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Shrishail Baligar , Mikolaj Kegler , Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Shawn Newsam

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

The diffusion models including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and score-based generative models have demonstrated excellent performance in speech synthesis tasks. However, its effectiveness comes at the cost of numerous…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Wenhao Guan , Qi Su , Haodong Zhou , Shiyu Miao , Xingjia Xie , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

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

Audio-visual Target Speaker Extraction (AV-TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker environments by leveraging visual cues as guidance. However, the performance of AV-TSE systems heavily relies on the quality of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junjie Li , Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Zexu Pan , Kong Aik Lee , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

Previously, Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) has yielded outstanding performance in certain application scenarios for speech enhancement and source separation. However, obtaining auxiliary speaker-related information is still challenging in…

State-of-the-art target speaker extraction (TSE) systems are typically designed to generalize to any given mixing environment, necessitating a model with a large enough capacity as a generalist. Personalized speech enhancement could be a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Tsun-An Hsieh , Minje Kim

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