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Modern speech enhancement (SE) networks typically implement noise suppression through time-frequency masking, latent representation masking, or discriminative signal prediction. In contrast, some recent works explore SE via generative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Bryce Irvin , Marko Stamenovic , Mikolaj Kegler , Li-Chia Yang

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

Improving speech system performance in noisy environments remains a challenging task, and speech enhancement (SE) is one of the effective techniques to solve the problem. Motivated by the promising results of generative adversarial networks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Daniel Michelsanti , Zheng-Hua Tan

Recent autoregressive transformer-based speech enhancement (SE) methods have shown promising results by leveraging advanced semantic understanding and contextual modeling of speech. However, these approaches often rely on complex…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Frédéric Berdoz , Antonis Asonitis , Roger Wattenhofer

Semantic information refers to the meaning conveyed through words, phrases, and contextual relationships within a given linguistic structure. Humans can leverage semantic information, such as familiar linguistic patterns and contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Jixun Yao , Hexin Liu , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , EngSiong Chng , Lei Xie

Speaker-aware source separation methods are promising workarounds for major difficulties such as arbitrary source permutation and unknown number of sources. However, it remains challenging to achieve satisfying performance provided a very…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jun Wang , Jie Chen , Dan Su , Lianwu Chen , Meng Yu , Yanmin Qian , Dong Yu

Informed speaker extraction aims to extract a target speech signal from a mixture of sources given prior knowledge about the desired speaker. Recent deep learning-based methods leverage a speaker discriminative model that maps a reference…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Emanuël A. P. Habets

In this work, we address the problem of binaural target-speaker extraction in the presence of multiple simultane-ous talkers. We propose a novel approach that leverages the individual listener's Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Yoav Ellinson , Sharon Gannot

While recent advancements in speech language models have achieved significant progress, they face remarkable challenges in modeling the long acoustic sequences of neural audio codecs. In this paper, we introduce \textbf{G}enerative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yongxin Zhu , Dan Su , Liqiang He , Linli Xu , Dong Yu

Text-based speech editing (TSE) modifies speech using only text, eliminating re-recording. However, existing TSE methods, mainly focus on the content accuracy and acoustic consistency of synthetic speech segments, and often overlook the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Rui Liu , Pu Gao , Jiatian Xi , Berrak Sisman , Carlos Busso , Haizhou Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention in speech processing, excelling in linguistic tasks such as speech recognition. However, jointly improving the performance of pre-trained models on various downstream tasks,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Tianrui Wang , Jin Li , Ziyang Ma , Rui Cao , Xie Chen , Longbiao Wang , Meng Ge , Xiaobao Wang , Yuguang Wang , Jianwu Dang , Nyima Tashi

Research on audio clue-based target speaker extraction (TSE) has focused on modeling mixtures and reference speech, achieving strong results in English due to abundant datasets. However, cross-lingual properties remain underexplored, as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 The Hieu Pham , Phuong Thanh Tran Nguyen , Xuan Tho Nguyen , Tan Dat Nguyen , Duc Dung Nguyen

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models can improve the audio quality of teleconferencing systems by adapting to the characteristics of a speaker's voice. However, most existing methods require a separate speaker embedding model to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tanel Pärnamaa , Ando Saabas

Universal speech enhancement aims at handling inputs with various speech distortions and recording conditions. In this work, we propose a novel hybrid architecture that synergizes the signal fidelity of discriminative modeling with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yinghao Liu , Chengwei Liu , Xiaotao Liang , Haoyin Yan , Shaofei Xue , Zheng Xue

Extracting individual elements from music mixtures is a valuable tool for music production and practice. While neural networks optimized to mask or transform mixture spectrograms into the individual source(s) have been the leading approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

Speech enhancement (SE) is the foundational task of enhancing the clarity and quality of speech in the presence of non-stationary additive noise. While deterministic deep learning models have been commonly employed for SE, recent research…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Sonal Kumar , Sreyan Ghosh , Utkarsh Tyagi , Anton Jeran Ratnarajah , Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru , Ramani Duraiswami , Dinesh Manocha

Speech enhancement (SE) is usually required as a front end to improve the speech quality in noisy environments, while the enhanced speech might not be optimal for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems due to speech distortion. On the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Zi-Qiang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

We propose DiffSpEx, a generative target speaker extraction method based on score-based generative modelling through stochastic differential equations. DiffSpEx deploys a continuous-time stochastic diffusion process in the complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Theodor Nguyen , Guangzhi Sun , Xianrui Zheng , Chao Zhang , Philip C Woodland

Binaural target sound extraction (TSE) aims to extract a desired sound from a binaural mixture of arbitrary sounds while preserving the spatial cues of the desired sound. Indeed, for many applications, the target sound signal and its…

Target-speaker speech recognition aims to recognize target-speaker speech from noisy environments with background noise and interfering speakers. This work presents a joint framework that combines time-domain target-speaker speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jiatong Shi , Chunlei Zhang , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Dong Yu