An unsupervised approach to cochannel speech separation

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-131

  Hu, Ke ^a   Wang, Deliang ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

cochannel speech separation; Computational auditory scene analysis (CASA); sequential grouping; unsupervised clustering; unvoiced speech segregation

Indexed keywords

PATIENT REHABILITATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

COCHANNEL SPEECH SEPARATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL GROUPING; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING; UNVOICED SPEECH SEGREGATIONS;

SPEECH;

EID: 84867946385     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2215591     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. J. B. Allen, Articulation and Intelligibility. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool, 2005.
2. J. Barker, A. Coy, N. Ma, and M. Cooke, "Recent advances in speech fragment decoding techniques," in Proc. Interspeech '06, 2006, pp. 85-88.
3. P. Boersma and D.Weenink [Online]. Available: http://www.fon.hum. uva.nl/praat, 2007, Praat: doing phonetics by computer (version 5.0.02)
4. R. C. Carhart and T. W. Tillman, "Interaction of competing speech signals with hearing losses," Arch. Otolaryngol., vol. 91, pp. 273-279, 1970.
5. A. Cichocki, S.-I. Amari, R. Zdunek, R. Kompass, G. Hori, and Z. He, "Extended SMART algorithms for non-negative matrix factorization," in Proc. ICAISC '06, 2006, no. 548-562.
6. M. Cooke and T. Lee, Speech Separation Challenge, 2006. [Online]. Available: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/M.Cooke/Speech- SeparationChallenge.htm
7. H. Dillon, Hearing Aids. New York: Thieme, 2001.
8. J. M. Festen andR. Plomp, "Effects of fluctuating noise and interfering speech on the speech-reception threshold for impaired and normal hearing," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 88, pp. 1725-1736, 1990.
9. G. Grindlay, 2010 [Online]. Available: http://code.google.com/p/nmflib/, NMFlib.
10. J. R. Hershey, S. J. Rennie, P. A. Olsen, and T. T. Kristjansson, "Superhuman multi-talker speech recognition: A graphical model approach," Comput. Speech Lang., vol. 24, pp. 45-66, 2010.
11. G. Hu and D. L. Wang, "Monaural speech segregation based on pitch tracking and amplitude modulation," IEEE Trans. Neural Netw., vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1135-1150, Sep. 2004.
12. G. Hu and D. L. Wang, "Auditory segmentation based on onset and offset analysis," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process., vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 396-405, Feb. 2007.
13. G. Hu and D. L. Wang, "Segregation of unvoiced speech from nonspeech interference," J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., vol. 124, pp. 1306-1319, 2008.
14. G. Hu and D. L. Wang, "A tandem algorithm for pitch estimation and voiced speech segregation," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 2067-2079, Nov. 2010.
15. K. Hu and D. L. Wang, "An approach to sequential grouping in cochannel speech," in Proc. ICASSP'11, 2011, pp. 4636-4639.
16. K. Hu and D. L.Wang, "Unvoiced speech segregation from nonspeech interference via CASA and spectral subtraction," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1600-1609, Aug. 2011.
17. A. N. Iyer, U. O. Ofoegbu, R. E. Yantorno, and B. Y. Smolenski, "Speaker distinguishing distances: A comparative study," Int J. Speech Technol., vol. 10, pp. 95-107, 2007.
18. D. D. Lee and H. S. Seung, "Learning the parts of objects by nonnegative matrix factorization," Nature, vol. 401, pp. 788-791, 1999.
19. G. W. Milligan and M. C. Cooper, "An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set," Psychometrika, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 159-179, 1985.
20. D. P. Morgan, E. B. George, L. T. Lee, and S. M. Kay, "Cochannel speaker separation by harmonic enhancement and suppression," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 407-424, Sep. 1997. (Pubitemid 127746014)
21. G. J. Mysore, P. Smaragdis, and B. Raj, "Non-negative hiddenMarkov modeling of audio with application to source separation," in Proc. Int. Conf. Latent Variable Anal. Signal Separat. (LVA/ICA), 2010.
22. U. O. Ofoegbu, A. N. Iyer, R. E. Yantorno, and S. Wenndt, "Unsupervised indexing of conversations with short speaker utterances," in Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conf., 2006, pp. 1-11.
23. M. H. Radfar and R.M. Dansereau, "Single-channel speech separation using soft mask filtering," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 2299-2310, Nov. 2007.
24. A. Reddy and B. Raj, "Soft mask methods for single-channel speaker separation," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1766-1776, Aug. 2007.
25. S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence-A Modern Approach, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002.
26. M. N. Schmidt and R. K. Olsson, "Single-channel speech separation using sparse non-negative matrix factorization," in Proc. Interspeech' 06, 2006, pp. 2614-2617.
27. Y. Shao, "Sequential organization in computational auditory scene analysis," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, 2007.
28. Y. Shao, S. Srinivasan, Z. Jin, and D. L. Wang, "A computational auditory scene analysis system for speech segregation and robust speech recognition," Comput. Speech Lang., vol. 24, pp. 77-93, 2010.
29. Y. Shao and D. L. Wang, "Model-based sequential organization in cochannel speech," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 289-298, Jan. 2006. (Pubitemid 43863474)
30. Y. Shao and D. L. Wang, "Sequential organization of speech in computational auditory scene analysis," Speech Commun., vol. 51, pp. 657-667, 2009.
31. P. Smaragdis, "Convolutive speech bases and their application to supervised speech separation," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-12, Jan. 2007.
32. M. Stark, M. Wohlmayr, and F. Pernkopf, "Source-filter-based single-channel speech separation using pitch information," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 242-255, Feb. 2011.
33. S. E. Tranter and D. A. Reynold, "An overview of automatic speaker diarization systems," IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, Lang. Process, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1557-1565, Sep. 2006. (Pubitemid 46547580)
34. Computational Auditory Scene Analysis: Principles, Algorithms and Applications,D. L.Wang and G. J. Brown, Eds. Hoboken,NJ:Wiley-IEEE, 2006.
35. R.Weiss and D. Ellis, "Speech separation using speaker-adapted eigenvoice speech models," Comput. Speech Lang., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 16-29, 2010.
36. R. Xu and D. C. Wunsch, Clustering. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-IEEE, 2009.