Continuous Speech Separation with Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02378v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:01:08 GMT
• Title: Continuous Speech Separation with Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays
• Authors: Dongmei Wang, Takuya Yoshioka, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Tianyan Zhou, Zhong Meng
• Abstract summary: Speech separation has been shown effective for multi-talker speech recognition. In this paper, we extend this approach to continuous speech separation. Two methods are proposed to mitigate a speech problem during single talker segments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Speech separation has been shown effective for multi-talker speech recognition. Under the ad hoc microphone array setup where the array consists of spatially distributed asynchronous microphones, additional challenges must be overcome as the geometry and number of microphones are unknown beforehand. Prior studies show, with a spatial-temporalinterleaving structure, neural networks can efficiently utilize the multi-channel signals of the ad hoc array. In this paper, we further extend this approach to continuous speech separation. Several techniques are introduced to enable speech separation for real continuous recordings. First, we apply a transformer-based network for spatio-temporal modeling of the ad hoc array signals. In addition, two methods are proposed to mitigate a speech duplication problem during single talker segments, which seems more severe in the ad hoc array scenarios. One method is device distortion simulation for reducing the acoustic mismatch between simulated training data and real recordings. The other is speaker counting to detect the single speaker segments and merge the output signal channels. Experimental results for AdHoc-LibiCSS, a new dataset consisting of continuous recordings of concatenated LibriSpeech utterances obtained by multiple different devices, show the proposed separation method can significantly improve the ASR accuracy for overlapped speech with little performance degradation for single talker segments.

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