Improved MVDR Beamforming Using LSTM Speech Models to Clean Spatial Clustering Masks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02191v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 22:35:00 GMT
• Title: Improved MVDR Beamforming Using LSTM Speech Models to Clean Spatial Clustering Masks
• Authors: Zhaoheng Ni, Felix Grezes, Viet Anh Trinh, Michael I. Mandel
• Abstract summary: spatial clustering techniques can achieve significant multi-channel noise reduction across relatively arbitrary microphone configurations. LSTM neural networks have successfully been trained to recognize speech from noise on single-channel inputs, but have difficulty taking full advantage of the information in multi-channel recordings. This paper integrates these two approaches, training LSTM speech models to clean the masks generated by the Model-based EM Source Separation and Localization (MESSL) spatial clustering method.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Spatial clustering techniques can achieve significant multi-channel noise reduction across relatively arbitrary microphone configurations, but have difficulty incorporating a detailed speech/noise model. In contrast, LSTM neural networks have successfully been trained to recognize speech from noise on single-channel inputs, but have difficulty taking full advantage of the information in multi-channel recordings. This paper integrates these two approaches, training LSTM speech models to clean the masks generated by the Model-based EM Source Separation and Localization (MESSL) spatial clustering method. By doing so, it attains both the spatial separation performance and generality of multi-channel spatial clustering and the signal modeling performance of multiple parallel single-channel LSTM speech enhancers. Our experiments show that when our system is applied to the CHiME-3 dataset of noisy tablet recordings, it increases speech quality as measured by the Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) algorithm and reduces the word error rate of the baseline CHiME-3 speech recognizer, as compared to the default BeamformIt beamformer.

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