A Training Framework for Stereo-Aware Speech Enhancement using Deep Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04939v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:13:41 GMT
• Title: A Training Framework for Stereo-Aware Speech Enhancement using Deep Neural Networks
• Authors: Bahareh Tolooshams and Kazuhito Koishida
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel stereo-aware framework for speech enhancement. The proposed framework is model independent, hence it can be applied to any deep learning based architecture. We show that by regularizing for an image preservation loss, the overall performance is improved, and the stereo aspect of the speech is better preserved.
• Score: 34.012007729454815
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With growing computational power and availability of multichannel microphone recordings, prior works have aimed to incorporate spatial statistics along with spectral information to boost up performance. Despite an improvement in enhancement performance of mono output, the spatial image preservation and subjective evaluations have not gained much attention in the literature. This paper proposes a novel stereo-aware framework for speech enhancement, i.e., a training loss for deep learning-based speech enhancement to preserve the spatial image while enhancing the stereo mixture. The proposed framework is model independent, hence it can be applied to any deep learning based architecture. We provide an extensive objective and subjective evaluation of the trained models through a listening test. We show that by regularizing for an image preservation loss, the overall performance is improved, and the stereo aspect of the speech is better preserved.

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