Location-based training for multi-channel talker-independent speaker separation

8 Oct 2021  ·  Hassan Taherian, Ke Tan, DeLiang Wang ·

Permutation-invariant training (PIT) is a dominant approach for addressing the permutation ambiguity problem in talker-independent speaker separation. Leveraging spatial information afforded by microphone arrays, we propose a new training approach to resolving permutation ambiguities for multi-channel speaker separation. The proposed approach, named location-based training (LBT), assigns speakers on the basis of their spatial locations. This training strategy is easy to apply, and organizes speakers according to their positions in physical space. Specifically, this study investigates azimuth angles and source distances for location-based training. Evaluation results on separating two- and three-speaker mixtures show that azimuth-based training consistently outperforms PIT, and distance-based training further improves the separation performance when speaker azimuths are close. Furthermore, we dynamically select azimuth-based or distance-based training by estimating the azimuths of separated speakers, which further improves separation performance. LBT has a linear training complexity with respect to the number of speakers, as opposed to the factorial complexity of PIT. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of LBT for the separation of four and five concurrent speakers.

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