Improving Speech Enhancement Performance by Leveraging Contextual Broad Phonetic Class Information

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07442v5
• Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:52:45 GMT
• Title: Improving Speech Enhancement Performance by Leveraging Contextual Broad Phonetic Class Information
• Authors: Yen-Ju Lu, Chia-Yu Chang, Cheng Yu, Ching-Feng Liu, Jeih-weih Hung, Shinji Watanabe, Yu Tsao
• Abstract summary: We explore the contextual information of articulatory attributes as additional information to further benefit speech enhancement. We propose to improve the SE performance by leveraging losses from an end-to-end automatic speech recognition model. Experimental results from speech denoising, speech dereverb, and impaired speech enhancement tasks confirmed that contextual BPC information improves SE performance.
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• Abstract: Previous studies have confirmed that by augmenting acoustic features with the place/manner of articulatory features, the speech enhancement (SE) process can be guided to consider the broad phonetic properties of the input speech when performing enhancement to attain performance improvements. In this paper, we explore the contextual information of articulatory attributes as additional information to further benefit SE. More specifically, we propose to improve the SE performance by leveraging losses from an end-to-end automatic speech recognition (E2E-ASR) model that predicts the sequence of broad phonetic classes (BPCs). We also developed multi-objective training with ASR and perceptual losses to train the SE system based on a BPC-based E2E-ASR. Experimental results from speech denoising, speech dereverberation, and impaired speech enhancement tasks confirmed that contextual BPC information improves SE performance. Moreover, the SE model trained with the BPC-based E2E-ASR outperforms that with the phoneme-based E2E-ASR. The results suggest that objectives with misclassification of phonemes by the ASR system may lead to imperfect feedback, and BPC could be a potentially better choice. Finally, it is noted that combining the most-confusable phonetic targets into the same BPC when calculating the additional objective can effectively improve the SE performance.

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