MVDR with torchaudio

Author Zhaoheng Ni

Overview

This is a tutorial on how to apply MVDR beamforming by using torchaudio.

Steps

• Ideal Ratio Mask (IRM) is generated by dividing the clean/noise magnitude by the mixture magnitude.

• We test all three solutions (ref_channel, stv_evd, stv_power) of torchaudio’s MVDR module.

• We test the single-channel and multi-channel masks for MVDR beamforming. The multi-channel mask is averaged along channel dimension when computing the covariance matrices of speech and noise, respectively.

Preparation

First, we import the necessary packages and retrieve the data.

The multi-channel audio example is selected from ConferencingSpeech dataset.

The original filename is

SSB07200001\#noise-sound-bible-0038\#7.86_6.16_3.00_3.14_4.84_134.5285_191.7899_0.4735\#15217\#25.16333303751458\#0.2101221178590021.wav

which was generated with;

• SSB07200001.wav from AISHELL-3 (Apache License v.2.0)

• noise-sound-bible-0038.wav from MUSAN (Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0)

import os
import requests
import torch
import torchaudio
import IPython.display as ipd

torch.random.manual_seed(0)
device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')

print(torch.__version__)
print(torchaudio.__version__)
print(device)

filenames = [
    'mix.wav',
    'reverb_clean.wav',
    'clean.wav',
]
base_url = 'https://download.pytorch.org/torchaudio/tutorial-assets/mvdr'

for filename in filenames:
    os.makedirs('_assets', exist_ok=True)
    if not os.path.exists(filename):
        with open(f'_assets/{filename}', 'wb') as file:
            file.write(requests.get(f'{base_url}/{filename}').content)

Out:

1.10.0+cpu
0.10.0+cpu
cpu

Generate the Ideal Ratio Mask (IRM)

Loading audio data

mix, sr = torchaudio.load('_assets/mix.wav')
reverb_clean, sr2 = torchaudio.load('_assets/reverb_clean.wav')
clean, sr3 = torchaudio.load('_assets/clean.wav')
assert sr == sr2

noise = mix - reverb_clean

Note

The MVDR Module requires torch.cdouble dtype for noisy STFT. We need to convert the dtype of the waveforms to torch.double

mix = mix.to(torch.double)
noise = noise.to(torch.double)
clean = clean.to(torch.double)
reverb_clean = reverb_clean.to(torch.double)

Compute STFT

stft = torchaudio.transforms.Spectrogram(
    n_fft=1024,
    hop_length=256,
    power=None,
)
istft = torchaudio.transforms.InverseSpectrogram(n_fft=1024, hop_length=256)

spec_mix = stft(mix)
spec_clean = stft(clean)
spec_reverb_clean = stft(reverb_clean)
spec_noise = stft(noise)

Generate the Ideal Ratio Mask (IRM)

Note

We found using the mask directly peforms better than using the square root of it. This is slightly different from the definition of IRM.

def get_irms(spec_clean, spec_noise, spec_mix):
    mag_mix = spec_mix.abs() ** 2
    mag_clean = spec_clean.abs() ** 2
    mag_noise = spec_noise.abs() ** 2
    irm_speech = mag_clean / (mag_clean + mag_noise)
    irm_noise = mag_noise / (mag_clean + mag_noise)

    return irm_speech, irm_noise

Note

We use reverberant clean speech as the target here, you can also set it to dry clean speech.

irm_speech, irm_noise = get_irms(spec_reverb_clean, spec_noise, spec_mix)

Apply MVDR

Apply MVDR beamforming by using multi-channel masks

results_multi = {}
for solution in ['ref_channel', 'stv_evd', 'stv_power']:
    mvdr = torchaudio.transforms.MVDR(ref_channel=0, solution=solution, multi_mask=True)
    stft_est = mvdr(spec_mix, irm_speech, irm_noise)
    est = istft(stft_est, length=mix.shape[-1])
    results_multi[solution] = est

Apply MVDR beamforming by using single-channel masks

We use the 1st channel as an example. The channel selection may depend on the design of the microphone array

results_single = {}
for solution in ['ref_channel', 'stv_evd', 'stv_power']:
    mvdr = torchaudio.transforms.MVDR(ref_channel=0, solution=solution, multi_mask=False)
    stft_est = mvdr(spec_mix, irm_speech[0], irm_noise[0])
    est = istft(stft_est, length=mix.shape[-1])
    results_single[solution] = est

Compute Si-SDR scores

def si_sdr(estimate, reference, epsilon=1e-8):
    estimate = estimate - estimate.mean()
    reference = reference - reference.mean()
    reference_pow = reference.pow(2).mean(axis=1, keepdim=True)
    mix_pow = (estimate * reference).mean(axis=1, keepdim=True)
    scale = mix_pow / (reference_pow + epsilon)

    reference = scale * reference
    error = estimate - reference

    reference_pow = reference.pow(2)
    error_pow = error.pow(2)

    reference_pow = reference_pow.mean(axis=1)
    error_pow = error_pow.mean(axis=1)

    sisdr = 10 * torch.log10(reference_pow) - 10 * torch.log10(error_pow)
    return sisdr.item()

Results

Single-channel mask results

for solution in results_single:
    print(solution+": ", si_sdr(results_single[solution][None,...], reverb_clean[0:1]))

Out:

ref_channel:  15.035907456985868
stv_evd:  16.563734673832553
stv_power:  17.820481909929907

Multi-channel mask results

for solution in results_multi:
    print(solution+": ", si_sdr(results_multi[solution][None,...], reverb_clean[0:1]))

Out:

ref_channel:  13.177373866143256
stv_evd:  12.433610809532858
stv_power:  12.897505397104673

Original audio

Mixture speech

ipd.Audio(mix[0], rate=16000)

Noise

ipd.Audio(noise[0], rate=16000)

Clean speech

ipd.Audio(clean[0], rate=16000)

Enhanced audio

Multi-channel mask, ref_channel solution

ipd.Audio(results_multi['ref_channel'], rate=16000)

Multi-channel mask, stv_evd solution

ipd.Audio(results_multi['stv_evd'], rate=16000)

Multi-channel mask, stv_power solution

ipd.Audio(results_multi['stv_power'], rate=16000)

Single-channel mask, ref_channel solution

ipd.Audio(results_single['ref_channel'], rate=16000)

Single-channel mask, stv_evd solution

ipd.Audio(results_single['stv_evd'], rate=16000)

Single-channel mask, stv_power solution

ipd.Audio(results_single['stv_power'], rate=16000)