Title
Teacher-Student MixIT for Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Speech Separation.
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a novel semi-supervised learning framework for end-to-end speech separation. The proposed method first uses mixtures of unseparated sources and the mixture invariant training (MixIT) criterion to train a teacher model. The teacher model then estimates separated sources that are used to train a student model with standard permutation invariant training (PIT). The student model can be fine-tuned with supervised data, i.e., paired artificial mixtures and clean speech sources, and further improved via model distillation. Experiments with single and multi channel mixtures show that the teacher-student training resolves the over-separation problem observed in the original MixIT method. Further, the semisupervised performance is comparable to a fully-supervised separation system trained using ten times the amount of supervised data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1243
Interspeech
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jisi Zhang120.71
Catalin Zorila222.74
Rama Doddipatla324.09
Jon Barker467664.08