Paper ID: 2409.15799

WeSep: A Scalable and Flexible Toolkit Towards Generalizable Target Speaker Extraction

Shuai Wang, Ke Zhang, Shaoxiong Lin, Junjie Li, Xuefei Wang, Meng Ge, Jianwei Yu, Yanmin Qian, Haizhou Li

Target speaker extraction (TSE) focuses on isolating the speech of a specific target speaker from overlapped multi-talker speech, which is a typical setup in the cocktail party problem. In recent years, TSE draws increasing attention due to its potential for various applications such as user-customized interfaces and hearing aids, or as a crutial front-end processing technologies for subsequential tasks such as speech recognition and speaker recongtion. However, there are currently few open-source toolkits or available pre-trained models for off-the-shelf usage. In this work, we introduce WeSep, a toolkit designed for research and practical applications in TSE. WeSep is featured with flexible target speaker modeling, scalable data management, effective on-the-fly data simulation, structured recipes and deployment support. The toolkit is publicly avaliable at \url{this https URL.}

Submitted: Sep 24, 2024