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Target speech extraction (TSE) extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary clues characterizing the speaker, such as an enrollment utterance. TSE addresses thus the challenging problem of simultaneously performing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tsubasa Ochiai , Katerina Zmolikova , Hiroshi Sato , Tomohiro Nakatani

Target speaker extraction aims to separate the voice of a specific speaker from mixed speech. Traditionally, this process has relied on extracting a speaker embedding from a reference speech, in which a speaker recognition model is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bang Zeng , Ming Li

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

In this paper, we investigate a novel approach for Target Speech Extraction (TSE), which relies solely on textual context to extract the target speech. We refer to this task as Contextual Speech Extraction (CSE). Unlike traditional TSE…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Minsu Kim , Rodrigo Mira , Honglie Chen , Stavros Petridis , Maja Pantic

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

Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction (AVTSE) aims to separate a target speaker's voice from a mixed audio signal using the corresponding visual cues. While most existing AVTSE methods rely exclusively on frontal-view videos, this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Peijun Yang , Zhan Jin , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Diffusion models have shown promising results in speech enhancement, using a task-adapted diffusion process for the conditional generation of clean speech given a noisy mixture. However, at test time, the neural network used for score…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Bunlong Lay , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Julius Richter , Timo Gerkmann

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

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

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

Speaker extraction (SE) aims to segregate the speech of a target speaker from a mixture of interfering speakers with the help of auxiliary information. Several forms of auxiliary information have been employed in single-channel SE, such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Mohamed Elminshawi , Wolfgang Mack , Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Soumitro Chakrabarty , Emanuël A. P. Habets

This paper describes an audio-visual speech enhancement (AV-SE) method that estimates from noisy input audio a mixture of the speech of the speaker appearing in an input video (on-screen target speech) and of a selected speaker not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Tomoya Yoshinaga , Keitaro Tanaka , Shigeo Morishima

Audio-visual target speech extraction (AV-TSE) is one of the enabling technologies in robotics and many audio-visual applications. One of the challenges of AV-TSE is how to effectively utilize audio-visual synchronization information in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wenxuan Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Xixin Wu , Haizhou Li , Helen Meng

Language-queried audio source separation (LASS) focuses on separating sounds using textual descriptions of the desired sources. Current methods mainly use discriminative approaches, such as time-frequency masking, to separate target sounds…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yi Yuan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

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

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

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 present the first neural target speech extraction (TSE) system that uses human feedback for iterative refinement. Our approach allows users to mark specific segments of the TSE output, generating an edit mask. The refinement system then…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Malek Itani , Ashton Graves , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Shyamnath Gollakota

In recent years, speech generation has seen remarkable progress, now achieving one-shot generation capability that is often virtually indistinguishable from real human voice. Integrating such advancements in speech generation with large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Paweł Budzianowski , Taras Sereda , Tomasz Cichy , Ivan Vulić

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