Self-Supervised Speech Quality Estimation and Enhancement Using Only Clean Speech
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| author | Fu, Szu-Wei Hung, Kuo-Hsuan Tsao, Yu Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank |
| author_facet | Fu, Szu-Wei Hung, Kuo-Hsuan Tsao, Yu Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank |
| contents | Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label collection. To solve this problem, we propose VQScore, a self-supervised metric for evaluating speech based on the quantization error of a vector-quantized-variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE). The training of VQ-VAE relies on clean speech; hence, large quantization errors can be expected when the speech is distorted. To further improve correlation with real quality scores, domain knowledge of speech processing is incorporated into the model design. We found that the vector quantization mechanism could also be used for self-supervised speech enhancement (SE) model training. To improve the robustness of the encoder for SE, a novel self-distillation mechanism combined with adversarial training is introduced. In summary, the proposed speech quality estimation method and enhancement models require only clean speech for training without any label requirements. Experimental results show that the proposed VQScore and enhancement model are competitive with supervised baselines. The code will be released after publication. |
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| spellingShingle | Self-Supervised Speech Quality Estimation and Enhancement Using Only Clean Speech Fu, Szu-Wei Hung, Kuo-Hsuan Tsao, Yu Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank Sound Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing Speech quality estimation has recently undergone a paradigm shift from human-hearing expert designs to machine-learning models. However, current models rely mainly on supervised learning, which is time-consuming and expensive for label collection. To solve this problem, we propose VQScore, a self-supervised metric for evaluating speech based on the quantization error of a vector-quantized-variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE). The training of VQ-VAE relies on clean speech; hence, large quantization errors can be expected when the speech is distorted. To further improve correlation with real quality scores, domain knowledge of speech processing is incorporated into the model design. We found that the vector quantization mechanism could also be used for self-supervised speech enhancement (SE) model training. To improve the robustness of the encoder for SE, a novel self-distillation mechanism combined with adversarial training is introduced. In summary, the proposed speech quality estimation method and enhancement models require only clean speech for training without any label requirements. Experimental results show that the proposed VQScore and enhancement model are competitive with supervised baselines. The code will be released after publication. |
| title | Self-Supervised Speech Quality Estimation and Enhancement Using Only Clean Speech |
| topic | Sound Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16321 |