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Wavesplit: End-to-End Speech Separation by Speaker Clustering

20 Feb 2020arXiv:2002.08933archive 2025-07-28

Neil Zeghidour, David Grangier

We introduce Wavesplit, an end-to-end source separation system. From a single mixture, the model infers a representation for each source and then estimates each source signal given the inferred representations. The model is trained to jointly perform both tasks from the raw waveform. Wavesplit infers a set of source representations via clustering, which addresses the fundamental permutation problem of separation. For speech separation, our sequence-wide speaker representations provide a more robust separation of long, challenging recordings compared to prior work. Wavesplit redefines the state-of-the-art on clean mixtures of 2 or 3 speakers (WSJ0-2/3mix), as well as in noisy and reverberated settings (WHAM/WHAMR). We also set a new benchmark on the recent LibriMix dataset. Finally, we show that Wavesplit is also applicable to other domains, by separating fetal and maternal heart rates from a single abdominal electrocardiogram.

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ClusteringData AugmentationSpeech Separation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Speech Separation WHAMR! Wavesplit SI-SDRi 13.2 #9 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Separation WSJ0-2mix Wavesplit v2 SDRi 22.3 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Separation WSJ0-2mix Wavesplit v2 SI-SDRi 22.2 #16 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Speech Separation WSJ0-2mix Wavesplit v1 SI-SDRi 19.0 #27 of 40 Archive leaderboard report

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