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Target sound extraction (TSE) is the task of extracting a target sound specified by a query from an audio mixture. Much prior research has focused on the problem setting under the Fully Matched Query (FMQ) condition, where the query…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Ryo Sato , Chiho Haruta , Nobuhiko Hiruma , Keisuke Imoto

The goal of text-queried target sound extraction (TSE) is to extract from a mixture a sound source specified with a natural-language caption. While it is preferable to have access to large-scale text-audio pairs to address a variety of text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Kohei Saijo , Janek Ebbers , François G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Gordon Wichern , Jonathan Le Roux

This manuscript proposes a novel robust procedure for the extraction of a speaker of interest (SOI) from a mixture of audio sources. The estimation of the SOI is performed via independent vector extraction (IVE). Since the blind IVE cannot…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Jiri Malek , Jakub Jansky , Zbynek Koldovsky , Tomas Kounovsky , Jaroslav Cmejla , Jindrich Zdansky

Speaker extraction seeks to extract the target speech in a multi-talker scenario given an auxiliary reference. Such reference can be auditory, i.e., a pre-recorded speech, visual, i.e., lip movements, or contextual, i.e., phonetic sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Junjie Li , Meng Ge , Zexu Pan , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We propose TSELM, a novel target speaker extraction network that leverages discrete tokens and language models. TSELM utilizes multiple discretized layers from WavLM as input tokens and incorporates cross-attention mechanisms to integrate…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Beilong Tang , Bang Zeng , Ming Li

In the speaker extraction problem, it is found that additional information from the target speaker contributes to the tracking and extraction of the target speaker, which includes voiceprint, lip movement, facial expression, and spatial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Yunzhe Hao , Jiaming Xu , Peng Zhang , Bo Xu

This paper aims to achieve single-channel target speech extraction (TSE) in enclosures utilizing distance clues and room information. Recent works have verified the feasibility of distance clues for the TSE task, which can imply the sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Runwu Shi , Zirui Lin , Benjamin Yen , Jiang Wang , Ragib Amin Nihal , Kazuhiro Nakadai

The brain-assisted target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the attended speech from mixed speech by utilizing the brain neural activities, for example Electroencephalography (EEG). However, existing models overlook the issue of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Cunhang Fan , Ying Chen , Jian Zhou , Zexu Pan , Jingjing Zhang , Youdian Gao , Xiaoke Yang , Zhengqi Wen , Zhao Lv

In target speaker extraction (TSE), we aim to recover target speech from a multi-talker mixture using a short enrollment utterance as reference. Recent studies on diffusion and flow-matching generators have improved target-speech fidelity.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Duojia Li , Shuhan Zhang , Zihan Qian , Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li , Haizhou Li

Target speech extraction is a technique to extract the target speaker's voice from mixture signals using a pre-recorded enrollment utterance that characterize the voice characteristics of the target speaker. One major difficulty of target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Takafumi Moriya , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura

Deep learning technologies have significantly advanced the performance of target speaker extraction (TSE) tasks. To enhance the generalization and robustness of these algorithms when training data is insufficient, data augmentation is a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Junjie Li , Ke Zhang , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li , Man-Wai Mak , Kong Aik Lee

Target sound extraction (TSE) separates the target sound from the mixture signals based on provided clues. However, the performance of existing models significantly degrades under reverberant conditions. Inspired by auditory scene analysis…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yiwen Wang , Xihong Wu

A speaker extraction algorithm seeks to extract the target speaker's speech from a multi-talker speech mixture. The prior studies focus mostly on speaker extraction from a highly overlapped multi-talker speech mixture. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Haizhou Li

Common target sound extraction (TSE) approaches primarily relied on discriminative approaches in order to separate the target sound while minimizing interference from the unwanted sources, with varying success in separating the target from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Jiarui Hai , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Karan Thakkar , Najim Dehak , Mounya Elhilali

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

The primary goal of multi-modal TSE (MTSE) is to extract a target speaker from a speech mixture using complementary information from different modalities, such as audio enrolment and visual feeds corresponding to the target speaker. MTSE…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Srikanth Korse , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuel A. P. Habets , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli

Target speech extraction (TSE) aims to recover a target speaker's voice from a mixture. While recent text-prompted approaches have shown promise, most approaches assume fully overlapped mixtures, limiting insight into behavior across…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ro-hoon Oh , Jihwan Seol , Bugeun Kim

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…

While generative models have set new benchmarks for Target Speaker Extraction (TSE), their inherent reliance on global context precludes deployment in real-time applications. Direct adaptation to streaming scenarios often leads to…

Determining 'who spoke what and when' remains challenging in real-world applications. In typical scenarios, Speaker Diarization (SD) is employed to address the problem of 'who spoke when,' while Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) or Target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Bang Zeng , Ming Li