Single-Channel Speech Separation with Auxiliary Speaker Embeddings

Abstract: We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker embeddings created from additional clean context recordings of the two speakers as input to assist in attributing the different time-frequency bins to the two speakers. In experiments, we show that the proposed model yields good performance in the source separation task, and outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines. Specifically, separating speech from the challenging VoxCeleb dataset, the proposed model yields 4.79dB signal-to-distortion ratio, 8.44dB signal-to-artifacts ratio and 7.11dB signal-to-interference ratio.