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SoloSpeech: A high-quality target speech extractor (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A system pulls one speaker's voice out of a mix by squeezing both the mix and a short sample of that speaker into compact forms, matching them to extract the voice, then rebuilding and cleaning the result. It beat usual approaches on clarity and sound quality, even on unfamiliar recordings.

Abstract · SoloSpeech: Enhancing Intelligibility and Quality in Target Speech Extraction through a Cascaded Generative Pipeline

Target Speech Extraction (TSE) aims to isolate a target speaker's voice from a mixture of multiple speakers by leveraging speaker-specific cues, typically provided as auxiliary audio (a.k.a. cue audio). Although recent advancements in TSE have primarily employed discriminative models that offer high perceptual quality, these models often introduce unwanted artifacts, reduce naturalness, and are sensitive to discrepancies between training and testing environments. On the other hand, generative models for TSE lag in perceptual quality and intelligibility. To address these challenges, we present SoloSpeech, a novel cascaded generative pipeline that integrates compression, extraction, reconstruction, and correction processes. SoloSpeech features a speaker-embedding-free target extractor that utilizes conditional information from the cue audio's latent space, aligning it with the mixture audio's latent space to prevent mismatches. Evaluated on the widely-used Libri2Mix dataset, SoloSpeech achieves the new state-of-the-art intelligibility and quality in target speech extraction while demonstrating exceptional generalization on out-of-domain data and real-world scenarios.

Helin Wang, Jiarui Hai, Dongchao Yang, Chen Chen, Kai Li, Junyi Peng, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro Velazquez, Jesus Villalba, Najim Dehak
arXiv:2505.19314 · eess.AS, cs.AI, cs.SD · submitted May 25, 2025 · updated Sep 6, 2025
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