The Transformer model, particularly its cross-attention module, is widely used for feature fusion in target sound extraction which extracts the signal of interest based on given clues. Despite its effectiveness, this approach suffers from low computational efficiency. Recent advancements in state space models, notably the latest work Mamba, have shown comparable performance to Transformer-based methods while significantly reducing computational complexity in various tasks. However, Mamba’s applicability in target sound extraction is limited due to its inability to capture dependencies between different sequences as the cross-attention does. In this paper, we propose CrossMamba for target sound extraction, which leverages the hidden attention mechanism of Mamba to compute dependencies between the given clues and the audio mixture. The calculation of Mamba can be divided to the query, key and value. We utilize the clue to generate the query and the audio mixture to derive the key and value, adhering to the principle of the cross-attention mechanism in Transformers. Experimental results from two representative target sound extraction methods validate the efficacy of the proposed CrossMamba.

Monaural speech separation aims to separate concurrent speakers from a single-microphone mixture recording. Inspired by the effect of pitch priming in auditory scene analysis (ASA) mechanisms, a novel pitch-guided speech separation framework is proposed in this work. The prominent advantage of this framework is that both the permutation problem and the unknown speaker number problem existing in general models can be avoided by using pitch contours as the primary means to guide the target speaker. In addition, adversarial training is applied, instead of a traditional time-frequency mask, to improve the perceptual quality of separated speech. Specifically, the proposed framework can be divided into two phases: pitch extraction and speech separation. The former aims to extract pitch contour candidates for each speaker from the mixture, modeling the bottom-up process in ASA mechanisms. Any pitch contour can be selected as the condition in the second phase to separate the corresponding speaker, where a conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) is applied. The second phase models the effect of pitch priming in ASA. Experiments on the WSJ0-2mix corpus reveal that the proposed approaches can achieve higher pitch extraction accuracy and better separation performance, compared to the baseline models, and have the potential to be applied to SOTA architectures.

In the current method for the sound field translation tasks based on spherical harmonic (SH) analysis, the solution based on the additive theorem usually faces the problem of singular values caused by large matrix condition numbers. The influence of different distances and frequencies of the spherical radial function on the stability of the translation matrix will affect the accuracy of the SH coefficients at the selected point. Due to the problems mentioned above, we propose a neural network scheme based on the dual-path transformer. More specifically, the dual-path network is constructed by the selfattention module along the two dimensions of the frequency and order axes. The transform-average-concatenate layer and upscaling layer are introduced in the network, which provides solutions for multiple sampling points and upscaling. Numerical simulation results indicate that both the working frequency range and the distance range of the translation are extended. More accurate higher-order SH coefficients are obtained with the proposed dual-path network.