MC-SpEx: Towards Effective Speaker Extraction with Multi-Scale Interfusion and Conditional Speaker Modulation

Accepted by InterSpeech 2023

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MC-SpEx: Towards Effective Speaker Extraction with Multi-Scale Interfusion and Conditional Speaker Modulation

Jun Chen, Wei Rao, Zilin Wang, Jiuxin Lin, Yukai Ju, Shulin He, Yannan Wang, Zhiyong Wu

Abstract

The previous SpEx+ has yielded outstanding performance in speaker extraction and attracted much attention. However, it still encounters inadequate utilization of multi-scale information and speaker embedding. To this end, this paper proposes a new effective speaker extraction system with multi-scale interfusion and conditional speaker modulation (ConSM), which is called MC-SpEx. First of all, we design the weight-share multi-scale fusers (ScaleFusers) for efficiently leveraging multi-scale information as well as ensuring consistency of the model’s feature space. Then, to consider different scale information while generating masks, the multi-scale interactive mask generator (ScaleInterMG) is presented. Moreover, we introduce ConSM module to fully exploit speaker embedding in the speech extractor. Experimental results on the Libri2Mix dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our improvements and the state-of-the-art performance of our proposed MC-SpEx.


Fig.1: The overall diagram of the MC-SpEx. The dotted border represents the module with shared weights. The "\(\otimes\)" means element-wise multiplication. The “SI-SDR Loss" and ”CE Loss" refer to the scale-invariant signal-to-distortion ratio loss and cross-entropy loss in multi-task learning.

Cases

We compare the performance of our proposed MC-SpEx and SpEx on Libri2Mix test set. In this test set. The cases are divided into “different gender” and “same gender”, where “same gender” is further classified as “female mixed with female” and “male mixed with male”.

Different Gender

case 1

case 1  
Mixture
SpEx+
mixture baseline
MC-SpEx
Ground truth
proposed ground truth

case 2

case 2  
Mixture
SpEx+
mixture baseline
MC-SpEx
Ground truth
proposed ground truth

Same Gender

Female mixed with female

Female mixed with female  
Mixture
SpEx+
mixture baseline
MC-SpEx
Ground truth
proposed ground truth

Male mixed with male

Male mixed with male  
Mixture
SpEx+
mixture baseline
MC-SpEx
Ground truth
proposed ground truth