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Neural Target Speech Extraction: An overview

ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K. DELCROIX, M. OCHIAI, T. ČERNOCKÝ, J. KINOSHITA, K. YU, D.

Original Title

Neural Target Speech Extraction: An overview

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

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 approaching the listening ability of humans. One critical issue is handling interfering speakers because the target and nontarget speech signals share similar characteristics, complicating their discrimination. Target speech/speaker extraction (TSE) isolates the speech signal of a target speaker from a mixture of several speakers, with or without noises and reverberations, using clues that identify the speaker in the mixture. Such clues might be a spatial clue indicating the direction of the target speaker, a video of the speaker's lips, and a prerecorded enrollment utterance from which the speaker's voice characteristics can be derived. TSE is an emerging field of research that has received increased attention in recent years because it offers a practical approach to the cocktail party problem and involves such aspects of signal processing as audio, visual, and array processing as well as deep learning. This article focuses on recent neural-based approaches and presents an in-depth overview of TSE. We guide readers through the different major approaches, emphasizing the similarities among frameworks and discussing potential future directions.

Keywords

neural, speech, extraction

Authors

ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K.; DELCROIX, M.; OCHIAI, T.; ČERNOCKÝ, J.; KINOSHITA, K.; YU, D.

Released

1. 5. 2023

ISBN

1558-0792

Periodical

IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE

Year of study

40

Number

3

State

United States of America

Pages from

8

Pages to

29

Pages count

22

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10113382

BibTex

@article{BUT185203,
  author="ŽMOLÍKOVÁ, K. and DELCROIX, M. and OCHIAI, T. and ČERNOCKÝ, J. and KINOSHITA, K. and YU, D.",
  title="Neural Target Speech Extraction: An overview",
  journal="IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE",
  year="2023",
  volume="40",
  number="3",
  pages="8--29",
  doi="10.1109/MSP.2023.3240008",
  issn="1558-0792",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10113382"
}

Documents

zmolikova_2023_IEEE_SPM_Neural_Target_Speech_Extraction_An_overview.pdf