# Self-supervised learning with diffusion-based multichannel speech enhancement for speaker verification under noisy conditions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02244 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.02244/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Audio, speech and music, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 20 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Jul 2023.

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- Diffusion models / [Audio, speech and music](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/audio-speech-and-music/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 20 of 20)

- [Gaussian Error Linear Units (GELUs)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.08415/) (2016)
- [DiffWave: A Versatile Diffusion Model for Audio Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.09761/) (2020)
- [Maximum Likelihood Training of Score-Based Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.09258/) (2021)
- [ECAPA-TDNN: Emphasized Channel Attention, Propagation and Aggregation in TDNN Based Speaker Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.07143/) (2020)
- [MUSAN: A Music, Speech, and Noise Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.08484/) (2015)
- [Conv-TasNet: Surpassing Ideal Time-Frequency Magnitude Masking for Speech Separation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.07454/) (2018)
- [SEGAN: Speech Enhancement Generative Adversarial Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.09452/) (2017)
- [Conditional Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Speech Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05256/) (2022)
- [MetricGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks based Black-box Metric Scores Optimization for Speech Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.04874/) (2019)
- [Speech Enhancement with Score-Based Generative Models in the Complex STFT Domain](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17004/) (2022)
- [Universal Speech Enhancement with Score-based Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.03065/) (2022)
- [A Study on Speech Enhancement Based on Diffusion Probabilistic Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.11876/) (2021)
- [Statistical Speech Enhancement Based on Probabilistic Integration of Variational Autoencoder and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.11439/) (2017)
- [A variance modeling framework based on variational autoencoders for speech enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.01605/) (2019)
- [Self-supervised Text-independent Speaker Verification using Prototypical Momentum Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.07178/) (2020)
- [Disentangled Speech Embeddings using Cross-modal Self-supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.08742/) (2020)
- [Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Enhancement and Noise-Robust Speaker Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1709.01703/) (2017)
- [Restoring degraded speech via a modified diffusion model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.11347/) (2021)
- [Self-Supervised Speaker Verification Using Dynamic Loss-Gate and Label Correction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01928/) (2022)
- [MultiSV: Dataset for Far-Field Multi-Channel Speaker Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.06458/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The paper introduces Diff-Filter, a multichannel speech enhancement approach based on the diffusion probabilistic model, for improving speaker verification performance under noisy and reverberant conditions. It also presents a new two-step training procedure that takes the benefit of self-supervised learning. In the first stage, the Diff-Filter is trained by conducting timedomain speech filtering using a scoring-based diffusion model. In the second stage, the Diff-Filter is jointly optimized with a pre-trained ECAPA-TDNN speaker verification model under a self-supervised learning framework. We present a novel loss based on equal error rate. This loss is used to conduct selfsupervised learning on a dataset that is not labelled in terms of speakers. The proposed approach is evaluated on MultiSV, a multichannel speaker verification dataset, and shows significant improvements in performance under noisy multichannel conditions.