Disentangling Speakers in Multi-Talker Speech Recognition with Speaker-Aware CTC

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12388v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:26:33 GMT
• Title: Disentangling Speakers in Multi-Talker Speech Recognition with Speaker-Aware CTC
• Authors: Jiawen Kang, Lingwei Meng, Mingyu Cui, Yuejiao Wang, Xixin Wu, Xunying Liu, Helen Meng,
• Abstract summary: Multi-talker speech recognition faces unique challenges in disentangling and transcribing overlapping speech. This paper investigates the role of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) in speaker disentanglement when incorporated with Serialized Output Training (SOT) for MTASR. We propose a novel Speaker-Aware CTC (SACTC) training objective, based on the Bayes risk CTC framework.
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• Abstract: Multi-talker speech recognition (MTASR) faces unique challenges in disentangling and transcribing overlapping speech. To address these challenges, this paper investigates the role of Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) in speaker disentanglement when incorporated with Serialized Output Training (SOT) for MTASR. Our visualization reveals that CTC guides the encoder to represent different speakers in distinct temporal regions of acoustic embeddings. Leveraging this insight, we propose a novel Speaker-Aware CTC (SACTC) training objective, based on the Bayes risk CTC framework. SACTC is a tailored CTC variant for multi-talker scenarios, it explicitly models speaker disentanglement by constraining the encoder to represent different speakers' tokens at specific time frames. When integrated with SOT, the SOT-SACTC model consistently outperforms standard SOT-CTC across various degrees of speech overlap. Specifically, we observe relative word error rate reductions of 10% overall and 15% on low-overlap speech. This work represents an initial exploration of CTC-based enhancements for MTASR tasks, offering a new perspective on speaker disentanglement in multi-talker speech recognition.

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