ISCA Archive Interspeech 2021
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2021

Many-Speakers Single Channel Speech Separation with Optimal Permutation Training

Shaked Dovrat, Eliya Nachmani, Lior Wolf

Single channel speech separation has experienced great progress in the last few years. However, training neural speech separation for a large number of speakers (e.g., more than 10 speakers) is out of reach for the current methods, which rely on the Permutation Invariant Training (PIT). In this work, we present a permutation invariant training that employs the Hungarian algorithm in order to train with an O(C3) time complexity, where C is the number of speakers, in comparison to O(C!) of PIT based methods. Furthermore, we present a modified architecture that can handle the increased number of speakers. Our approach separates up to 20 speakers and improves the previous results for large C by a wide margin.