Improving Speech Recognition on Noisy Speech via Speech Enhancement with Multi-Discriminators CycleGAN

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06309v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:56:34 GMT
• Title: Improving Speech Recognition on Noisy Speech via Speech Enhancement with Multi-Discriminators CycleGAN
• Authors: Chia-Yu Li and Ngoc Thang Vu
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel method named Multi-discriminators CycleGAN to reduce noise of input speech. We show that training multiple generators on homogeneous subset of the training data is better than training one generator on all the training data.
• Score: 41.88097793717185
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents our latest investigations on improving automatic speech recognition for noisy speech via speech enhancement. We propose a novel method named Multi-discriminators CycleGAN to reduce noise of input speech and therefore improve the automatic speech recognition performance. Our proposed method leverages the CycleGAN framework for speech enhancement without any parallel data and improve it by introducing multiple discriminators that check different frequency areas. Furthermore, we show that training multiple generators on homogeneous subset of the training data is better than training one generator on all the training data. We evaluate our method on CHiME-3 data set and observe up to 10.03% relatively WER improvement on the development set and up to 14.09% on the evaluation set.

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