Continuous speech separation (CSS) is a recently proposed framework which aims at separating each speaker from an input mixture signal in a streaming fashion. Hereafter we perform an evaluation study on practical design considerations for a CSS system, addressing important aspects which have been neglected in recent works. In particular, we focus on the trade-off between separation performance, computational requirements and output latency showing how an offline separation algorithm can be used to perform CSS with a desired latency. We carry out an extensive analysis on the choice of CSS processing window size and hop size on sparsely overlapped data. We find out that the best trade-off between computational burden and performance is obtained for a window of 5 s.

Authors: Morrone, Giovanni; Cornell, Samuele; Zovato, Enrico; Brutti, Alessio; Squartini, Stefano
Affiliations: Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy; PerVoice S.p.A., Trento, Italy; Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 152 (May 2022) Paper Number: 10562
Publication Date: May 2, 2022 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Television Audio
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