Supervised Learning Approach to Monaural Segregation of Reverberant Speech.

摘要

A major source of signal degradation in real environments is room reverberation. Monaural speech segregation in reverberant environments is a particularly challenging problem. Although inverse filtering has been proposed to partially restore the harmonicity of reverberant speech before segregation, this approach is sensitive to specific source/receiver and room configurations. This study proposes a supervised learning approach to monaural segregation of reverberant voiced speech, which learns to map from a set of pitch-based auditory features to a grouping cue encoding the posterior probability of a time-frequency (T-F) unit being target dominant given observed features. We devise a novel objective function for the learning process, which directly relates to the goal of maximizing signal-to-noise ratio. The models trained using this objective function yield significantly better T-F unit labeling. A segmentation and grouping framework is utilized to form reliable segments under reverberant conditions and organize them into streams. Systematic evaluations show that our approach produces very promising results.