Context-Aware Two-Step Training Scheme for Domain Invariant Speech Separation
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| author | Wang, Wupeng Pan, Zexu Lin, Jingru Wang, Shuai Li, Haizhou |
| author_facet | Wang, Wupeng Pan, Zexu Lin, Jingru Wang, Shuai Li, Haizhou |
| contents | Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as real-world speech mixtures. To address this, we introduce a novel context-aware, two-stage training scheme for speech separation models. In this training scheme, the conventional end-to-end architecture is replaced with a framework that contains a context extractor and a segregator. The two modules are trained step by step to simulate the speech separation process of an auditory system. We evaluate the proposed training scheme through cross-domain experiments on both synthetic and real-world speech mixtures, and demonstrate that our new scheme effectively boosts separation quality across different domains without adaptation, as measured by signal quality metrics and word error rate (WER). Additionally, an ablation study on the real test set highlights that the context information, including phoneme and word representations from pretrained SSL models, serves as effective domain invariant training targets for separation models. |
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| spellingShingle | Context-Aware Two-Step Training Scheme for Domain Invariant Speech Separation Wang, Wupeng Pan, Zexu Lin, Jingru Wang, Shuai Li, Haizhou Sound Audio and Speech Processing Speech separation seeks to isolate individual speech signals from a multi-talk speech mixture. Despite much progress, a system well-trained on synthetic data often experiences performance degradation on out-of-domain data, such as real-world speech mixtures. To address this, we introduce a novel context-aware, two-stage training scheme for speech separation models. In this training scheme, the conventional end-to-end architecture is replaced with a framework that contains a context extractor and a segregator. The two modules are trained step by step to simulate the speech separation process of an auditory system. We evaluate the proposed training scheme through cross-domain experiments on both synthetic and real-world speech mixtures, and demonstrate that our new scheme effectively boosts separation quality across different domains without adaptation, as measured by signal quality metrics and word error rate (WER). Additionally, an ablation study on the real test set highlights that the context information, including phoneme and word representations from pretrained SSL models, serves as effective domain invariant training targets for separation models. |
| title | Context-Aware Two-Step Training Scheme for Domain Invariant Speech Separation |
| topic | Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12589 |