Self-supervised learning with diffusion-based multichannel speech enhancement for speaker verification under noisy conditions

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1. What is the proposed approach for multichannel speech enhancement in the context of speaker verification?

2. What is the proposed approach for developing a robust multichannel SV system?

3. What is Diff-Filter?

4. How is self-supervised learning applied in multichannel SV?

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The proposed approach for multichannel speech enhancement in the context of speaker verification is Diff-Filter. It is a two-stage diffusion probabilistic model-based approach that mimics the behavior of Rank-1 multichannel Wiener filter (MWF). In the first stage, the Diff-Filter is trained to conduct time-domain speech filtering using a scoring-based diffusion model. In the second stage, the Diff-Filter is jointly optimized with a pre-trained ECAPA-TDNN SV model under a self-supervised learning framework. This approach aims to enhance the performance of speaker verification in multichannel noisy conditions by leveraging the inherent structure of the data and the clean speech estimate provided by the conditioning network based on Conv-TasNet. The evaluation of the proposed approach on the MultiSV dataset shows significant improvement in SV performance under multichannel noisy conditions.

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The proposed approach involves training ECAPA-TDNN based SV system and multichannel speech enhancement system separately in the first phase. Then, a jointly optimized system using self-supervised learning is trained using Diff-Filter and ECAPA-TDNN with EER loss. Diff-Filter, a scoring-based diffusion probabilistic model, utilizes Conv-TasNet architecture for diffusion process. It is trained to provide Rank-1 MWF clean speech signal for a given multichannel noisy input signal. A conditioning network estimates clean and noise signals, conditioning the sampling process from terminal distribution aware of noise removal.

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Diff-Filter is a novel multichannel speech enhancement system using diffusion-based decoder network and conditioning network. It replicates Rank-1 MWF filter functionality to provide clean speech signals. The system comprises a diffusion-based decoder network and a conditioning network, with Conv-TasNet as an external conditioning network. The conditioning network computes clean speech signal and noise estimates, which are used in the diffusion process. Diff-Filter uses scoring-based diffusion probabilistic model and stochastic differential equations to learn gradients and conduct noise-aware speech enhancement. It has a two-stage training process and uses Euler-Maruyama scheme for inference. Diff-Filter improves speech enhancement by conditioning the diffusion encoder with target clean speech, noise, and noisy multichannel signal, and using clean speech and noise estimates from the conditioning network in the second stage of training.

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In multichannel SV, self-supervised learning is applied by jointly optimizing Diff-Filter and ECAPA-TDNN. Utterances are given to the network, and verification labels are generated. Data augmentation is used, and an EER loss function is proposed for training. Cosine similarity distance and loss are estimated to evaluate performance. This approach enhances the learning process and improves the accuracy of multichannel SV.

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For training Diff-Filter, the MultiSV dataset consisting of 4 channel speech utterances room simulated impulse response with background noises from Music, MUSAN, and freesound.org2 was used. The VoxCeleb2 dataset was utilized for training ECAPA-TDNN single-channel SV. The VoxCeleb2 dataset was chosen for joint training as Mul-tiSV is a labelled dataset, and the core of self-supervised learning is to explore the unlabelled dataset. To jointly optimize the network, a room impulse dataset was simulated and applied to the clean speech from the Lib-riSpeech dataset without considering speaker information, creating an unlabelled multichannel SV dataset. The pyroomacoustics toolbox was used for room simulation with 4 channels. The room length was randomly chosen between [3, 8] m, width between [3, 5] m, and height between [2, 3] m. The absorption coefficient was randomly drawn to ensure the room's RT60 was between [200, 600] ms. A total of 50000 training samples were generated for self-supervised learning. The MultiSV dataset was used for evaluation, along with an internal evaluation set created using the Fabiole corpus, a French speech corpus consisting of around 6882 audio files from 130 native French speakers. The same configuration was used for room impulse response simulation in the evaluation set creation. Various RIR scenarios were designed for evaluation purposes, focusing on speech enhancement and SV.

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Two loss functions are used in training: diffusion loss and scale invariant signal to distortion (SI-SDR) loss. The diffusion loss is defined by Fisher divergence and computes the scoring function, which is the gradient of change in log probability density in each diffusion step. The SI-SDR loss is applied to the output of the conditioning network to ensure the diffusion model ingrains the intrinsic information about clean speech estimate and noise estimate in time-domain representation. Initial weight of SI-SDR loss is set to 0.001 and increased by 0.0001 after every 5 epochs until it reaches 1. The two-stage training approach involves training the network for 100 epochs with a learning rate of 1e-2, reducing the learning rate over epochs with a factor of 0.85 after every 5 epochs, and training the system with a learning rate of 1e-4 for 500 epochs. The Conv-TasNet architecture is used for both diffusion decoder and conditioning network, with modifications such as replacing PReLU activation function with GeLU. Gradient clipping with a maximum L2-norm of 5 is used to ensure a stable learning process. Table 1 shows the evaluation of the proposed approach on MultiSV dataset for MRE and MRE hard using a multichannel trial protocol.

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In speaker verification, data augmentation techniques were employed to enhance the performance of ECAPA-TDNN. The VoxCeleb2 dev dataset was used for training, and a combination of different data-augmentation techniques was applied. These techniques included Kaldi recipes of data-augmentation, utilizing MU-SAN [33] and room impulse response dataset 4. Additionally, speed perturbation was implemented by altering the tempo of speech. These augmentation methods aimed to improve the robustness and generalization of the ECAPA-TDNN system in speaker verification tasks.

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The proposed approach outperforms Conv-TasNet as a baseline multichannel speech enhancement system. It was trained under the same training data and network configuration as Conv-TasNet. The proposed approach achieved better results on both MRE and MRE hard trials, as shown in Table 2. It also demonstrated significant performance improvement compared to the baseline results presented in [27]. The proposed approach, trained under a self-supervised learning framework, showed efficient generalization of speaker representation under noisy conditions using an unlabelled speaker dataset. The joint optimized approach with self-supervised learning achieved the best performance among all the systems evaluated, with a SIR of 24.37 and an SDR of 7.02. The usage of self-supervised learning eases network optimization for generalization from the unlabelled distribution, improving intraclass and interclass speaker representation. The conditioning network allowed for a noise-aware reverse diffusion process, and the usage of Conv-TasNet as a diffusion decoder enabled stepwise noise removal on time-domain signal representation, considering phase information.

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Diff-Filter improved performance by jointly optimizing with ECAPA-TDNN-based SV and selfsupervised contrastive learning. The EER loss in selfsupervised learning exploited the unlabelled speaker dataset. Significant improvements were observed in the MultiSV dataset compared to state-of-the-art systems. SIR and SDR evaluation metrics were used to measure speech enhancement performance. The results on the simulated evaluation set aligned with the MultiSV evaluation set. Future experiments will explore the efficiency of different tasks such as source separation and speaker diarization with Diff-Filter.

Self-supervised learning with diffusion-based multichannel speech enhancement for speaker verification under noisy conditions

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