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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

Diffusion models have gained attention in speech enhancement tasks, providing an alternative to conventional discriminative methods. However, research on target speech extraction under multi-speaker noisy conditions remains relatively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Leying Zhang , Yao Qian , Linfeng Yu , Heming Wang , Hemin Yang , Long Zhou , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian

Flow-based generative models have greatly improved text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis quality, but inference speed remains limited by the iterative sampling process and multiple function evaluations (NFE). The recent MeanFlow model accelerates…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Wei Wang , Rong Cao , Yi Guo , Zhengyang Chen , Kuan Chen , Yuanyuan Huo

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) 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 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

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

Multi-channel target speaker extraction (MC-TSE) aims to extract a target speaker's voice from multi-speaker signals captured by multiple microphones. Existing methods often rely on auxiliary clues such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Tongtao Ling , Shulin He , Pengjie Shen , Zhong-Qiu Wang

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) models primarily rely on target visual cues to isolate the target speaker's voice from others. We know that humans leverage linguistic knowledge, such as syntax and semantics, to support…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual target speaker extraction (AV-TSE) models primarily rely on visual cues from the target speaker. However, humans also leverage linguistic knowledge, such as syntactic constraints, next word prediction, and prior knowledge of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng , Haizhou Li

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

This paper describes our audio-quality-based multi-strategy approach for the audio-visual target speaker extraction (AVTSE) task in the Multi-modal Information based Speech Processing (MISP) 2023 Challenge. Specifically, our approach adopts…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Runduo Han , Xiaopeng Yan , Weiming Xu , Pengcheng Guo , Jiayao Sun , He Wang , Quan Lu , Ning Jiang , Lei Xie

Target speech extraction (TSE) has achieved strong performance in relatively simple conditions such as one-speaker-plus-noise and two-speaker mixtures, but its performance remains unsatisfactory in noisy multi-speaker scenarios. To address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Ziling Huang , Junnan Wu , Lichun Fan , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Haixin Guan , Yanhua Long

Real-time target speaker extraction (TSE) is intended to extract the desired speaker's voice from the observed mixture of multiple speakers in a streaming manner. Implementing real-time TSE is challenging as the computational complexity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Hiroshi Sato , Takafumi Moriya , Masato Mimura , Shota Horiguchi , Tsubasa Ochiai , Takanori Ashihara , Atsushi Ando , Kentaro Shinayama , Marc Delcroix

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

Diffusion and flow matching (FM) models have achieved remarkable progress in speech enhancement (SE), yet their dependence on multi-step generation is computationally expensive and vulnerable to discretization errors. Recent advances in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gang Yang , Yue Lei , Wenxin Tai , Jin Wu , Jia Chen , Ting Zhong , Fan Zhou

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) aims to extract the sound part of a target sound event class from a mixture audio with multiple sound events. The previous works mainly focus on the problems of weakly-labelled data, jointly learning and new…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Chao Weng , Jianwei Yu , Yuexian Zou

In this paper, we introduce SoloAudio, a novel diffusion-based generative model for target sound extraction (TSE). Our approach trains latent diffusion models on audio, replacing the previous U-Net backbone with a skip-connected Transformer…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Helin Wang , Jiarui Hai , Yen-Ju Lu , Karan Thakkar , Mounya Elhilali , Najim Dehak

Humans can listen to a target speaker even in challenging acoustic conditions that have noise, reverberation, and interfering speakers. This phenomenon is known as the cocktail-party effect. For decades, researchers have focused on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Katerina Zmolikova , Marc Delcroix , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Jan Černocký , Dong Yu