Speech separation is the task of separating target speech from background interference.
Traditionally, speech separation is studied as a signal processing problem. A more recent …

Auditory perception is our main gateway to communication with others via speech and
music, and it also plays an important role in alerting and orienting us to new events. This …

Humans are remarkably skilled at listening to one speaker out of an acoustic mixture of
several speech sources. Two speakers are easily segregated, even without binaural cues …

Solving the “cocktail party problem” depends on segregating, selecting, and comprehending
the message of one specific talker among competing talkers. This chapter reviews the …

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-
attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether …

Humans can easily tune in to one talker in a multitalker environment while still picking up
bits of background speech; however, it remains unclear how we perceive speech that is …

Speech perception in complex sound fields can greatly benefit from different unmasking
cues to segregate the target from interfering voices. This study investigated the role of three …

Speech perception is essential for daily communication. Background noise or concurrent
talkers, on the other hand, can make it challenging for listeners to track the target speech (ie …

Children perform more poorly than adults on a wide range of masked speech perception
paradigms, but this effect is particularly pronounced when the masker itself is also …

Many real-life situations can be extremely noisy, which makes it difficult to understand what
people say. Here, we introduce a novel audiovisual virtual reality experimental platform to …