Text-aware Speech Separation for Multi-talker Keyword Spotting
For noisy environments, ensuring the robustness of keyword spotting (KWS) systems is essential. While much research has focused on noisy KWS, less attention has been paid to multi-talker mixed speech scenarios. Unlike the usual cocktail party problem where multi-talker speech is separated using speaker clues, the key challenge here is to extract the target speech for KWS based on text clues. To address it, this paper proposes a novel Text-aware Permutation Determinization Training method for multi-talker KWS with a clue-based Speech Separation front-end (TPDT-SS). Our research highlights the critical role of SS front-ends and shows that incorporating keyword-specific clues into these models can greatly enhance the effectiveness. TPDT-SS shows remarkable success in addressing permutation problems in mixed keyword speech, thereby greatly boosting the performance of the backend. Additionally, fine-tuning our system on unseen mixed speech results in further performance improvement.
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