Mask-free separation pretraining improves representations of overlapping speech

SepRQ learns speaker-attributed representations at multiple time scales and reportedly outperforms established speech models across separation, diarization and target-speaker benchmarks.

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Séverin Baroudi · Hervé Bredin · Ricard Marxer
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Baroudi, Bredin and Marxer introduce SepRQ, a self-supervised speech model designed specifically for mixtures containing multiple speakers.

SepRQ extends the BestRQ self-supervised framework with a pseudo-source-separation objective.

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SepRQ achieves state-of-the-art multi-speaker representation learning using mask-free pseudo-source-separation with frozen codebooks.

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