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MGM - Segmentation
- Category description and use cases
- Output standard
- Recommended tool(s)
- Other evaluated tools
- Evaluation summary
Category description and use cases
Segmentation MGMs detect when silence, speech, and/or music occur in an audio file. This information may be interesting in its own right for determining how much of an object in an archive has content (e.g. is half the tape silence?). Segment data could also be used to route files (or parts of files) to different MGMs based on the content (for example, sending the speech portions into a workflow that includes STT and the music portions into a music workflow).
Note: these tools do not split the audio files themselves, only output timestamped labels for the contents of a segment. Splitting would need to be handled by another tool, such as ffmpeg.
Workflow example:
Output standard
Summary: An array of segments, each with a label, start, and end. Start and end are timestamps in seconds. The label may be one of: "speech", "music", "silence." If the label is "speech," a gender" may be specified as either "male" or "female."
Element Datatype Obligation Definition media object required Wrapper for metadata about the source media file. media.filename string required Filename of the source file. media.duration string required The duration of the source file audio. numSpeakers integer optional Number of speakers (if used for diarization). segments array required Wrapper for segments of silence, speech, or audio. segments[*] object optional A segment of silence, speech, or audio. segments[*].label string required The type of segment: silence, speech, or audio. segments[*].start string required Start time in seconds. segments[*].end string required End time in seconds. segments[*].gender string optional The classified gender of the speaker. segments[*].speakerLabel string optional Speaker label from speaker diarization.
JSON schema[[ ][Expand source]][]
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/schema#",
"type": "object",
"title": "Audio Segment Schema",
"required": [
"media",
"segments"
],
"properties": {
"media": {
"type": "object",
"title": "Media",
"description": "Wrapper for metadata about the source media file.",
"required": [
"filename",
"duration"
],
"properties": {
"filename": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Filename",
"description": "Filename of the source file.",
"default": "",
"examples": [
"myfile.wav"
]
},
"duration": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Duration",
"description": "Duration of the source file audio.",
"default": "",
"examples": [
"25.888"
]
}
}
},
"numSpeakers": {
"type": "integer",
"title": "Number of speakers",
"description": "Number of speakers (if used for diarization).",
"default": 0
},
"segments": {
"type": "array",
"title": "Segments",
"description": "Segments of silence, speech, or audio.",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"label",
"start",
"end"
],
"oneOf": [
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"label": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Label",
"description": "The type of segment.",
"enum": [
"speech"
]
},
"start": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Start",
"description": "Start time in seconds",
"default": 0.0,
"examples": [
"123.45"
]
},
"end": {
"type": "string",
"title": "End",
"description": "End time in seconds",
"default": 0.0,
"examples": [
"123.45"
]
},
"gender": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Gender",
"description": "The classified gender of the speaker.",
"enum": [
"male",
"female"
],
"default": "unknown"
},
"speakerLabel": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Speaker label",
"description": "Speaker label from speaker diarization",
"default": "unknown"
}
}
},
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"label": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Label",
"description": "The type of segment.",
"enum": [
"music",
"silence"
]
},
"start": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Start.",
"description": "Start time in seconds",
"default": 0.0,
"examples": [
"123.45"
]
},
"end": {
"type": "string",
"title": "End",
"description": "End time in seconds",
"default": 0.0,
"examples": [
"123.45"
]
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
}
Sample output
Sample segmentation output[[ ][Expand source]][]
{
"media": {
"filename": "mysong.wav",
"duration": "124.3"
},
"segments": [
{
"label": "speech",
"start": "0.0",
"end": "12.35",
"gender": "male",
"speakerLabel": "speaker1"
},
{
"label": "music",
"start": "10",
"end": "20"
}
]
}
Recommended tool(s)
inaSpeechSegmenter
Official documentation: GitHub
Language: Python
**Description: **inaSpeechSegmenter detects music, speech, noise, silence ("no energy") and the apparent gender of the speaker. Zones of speech over music are usually tagged as speech but sometimes as music.
Cost: Free (open source)
Social impact: Trained on French-language samples, so its idea of what male and female voices sound like are based on an unknown sample of French speakers. From initial testing, the results have been more or less accurate for our samples in English, but this is an important note.
Notes:
Installation & requirements
Requires ffmpeg and TensorFlow
Install via pip:
pip install inaSpeechSegmenter
Parameters
None
Because inaSpeechSegmenter does not have any parameters for the minimum length of a segment or maximum length of silence allowed within a speech/music segment, it may be beneficial to add another step in the workflow (or built in to the ina adapter) that allows the output from ina to be filtered/altered based on such parameters.
Input formats
All media formats accepted by ffmpeg (wav, mp3, mp4, etc.)
AMP Implementation notes
In order to create "smoother" segments for our use cases, segments of noise and silence should be a minimum of 10 seconds. Short segments should be folded into the previous segment. This removes very brief segments of silence in between words/sentences/speakers to produce higher-level regions of speech, silence, noise, and music.
For use in sending just regions of speech through speech-to-text MGMs, remove segments of noise and silence that are longer than 1 minute (timestamps will be readjusted later) to cut down on transcription processing time.
Example Usage
inaSpeechSegmenter Example
from inaSpeechSegmenter import Segmenter
seg = Segmenter()
segmentation = seg("path/to/file.wav")
for s in segmentation:
label = s[0]
start = s[1]
end = s[2]
print("Detected {} from {} seconds to {} seconds".format(label, start, end))
Example Output
inaSpeechSegmentation Output
# Output has been printed in the order start, end, label
0.0 23.76 Music
23.78 28.080000000000002 NOACTIVITY
28.080000000000002 36.6 Music
36.62 37.2 NOACTIVITY
37.2 38.04 Music
38.06 38.9 NOACTIVITY
38.9 44.72 Music
44.74 46.04 NOACTIVITY
46.04 46.58 Music
46.6 47.56 NOACTIVITY
47.56 254.24 Music
254.24 255.26000000000002 Female
255.28 274.82 Music
274.84000000000003 275.32 NOACTIVITY
275.32 277.90000000000003 Music
277.92 278.74 NOACTIVITY
278.74 279.88 Female
279.90000000000003 345.0 Music
345.02 347.5 NOACTIVITY
347.5 355.42 Music
355.44 356.34000000000003 NOACTIVITY
356.34000000000003 372.66 Music
372.68 378.12 NOACTIVITY
378.12 395.2 Music
Other evaluated tools
pyannote-audio
Official documentation: GitHub
Language: Python
Description: "Neural building blocks for speaker diarization: speech activity detection, speaker change detection, overlapped speech detection, speaker embedding"
Cost: Free (open source)
Notes: Seems to be somewhat accurate in detecting when speech occurs. However, it only identifies speech segments, not music or silence like we would prefer. Primarily used for detecting different speakers, which is not something we have a particular use case for.
Installation & requirements
Install via pip (pyannote.audio)
Requires Python 3.7 on Linux/MacOS
Example Usage
pyannote-audio Example[[ ][Expand source]][]
import sys, os
from datetime import datetime
from pyannote.audio.labeling.extraction import SequenceLabeling
from pyannote.audio.signal import Binarize
def main():
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("Arguments: input-file [output-file]")
# Get input/output files
audio_file = sys.argv[1]
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
out = sys.argv[2]
else:
out = "pyannote_{}_.txt".format(os.path.basename(audio_file))
#init model
media = {'uri': 'filename', 'audio': audio_file}
SAD_MODEL = ('pyannote-audio/tutorials/models/speech_activity_detection/train/'
'AMI.SpeakerDiarization.MixHeadset.train/weights/0280.pt')
sad = SequenceLabeling(model=SAD_MODEL)
sad_scores = sad(media)
# Run segmentation
print("\n\nSegmenting {}".format(media))
startTime = datetime.now()
binarize = Binarize(offset = 0.94, onset = 0.70, log_scale = True)
speech = binarize.apply(sad_scores, dimension = 1)
# Write output
print("\n\nWriting to {}".format(out))
with open(out, 'w') as o:
for s in speech:
result = "{}\t{}\t Speech \n".format(s.start, s.end) # start end label
o.write(result)
print(result)
# Print run time
endTime = datetime.now()
print("Finished!\n Runtime: {}".format(endTime-startTime))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Example Output
4.65 4.66 Speech
4.67 4.68 Speech
4.69 4.7 Speech
4.71 4.72 Speech
4.73 4.74 Speech
4.75 4.76 Speech
4.7700000000000005 4.78 Speech
4.79 4.8 Speech
4.8100000000000005 4.82 Speech
4.83 4.84 Speech
4.8500000000000005 4.86 Speech
4.87 4.88 Speech
4.89 4.9 Speech
4.91 4.92 Speech
4.93 4.94 Speech
4.95 4.96 Speech
4.97 4.98 Speech
4.99 5.0 Speech
6.57 6.58 Speech
7.04 7.05 Speech
7.0600000000000005 7.07 Speech
LIUM SpkDiarization
Official documentation: LIUM SpkDiarization
Language: Java, run via command line.
**Description: **"LIUM_SpkDiarization comprises a full set of tools to create a complete system for speaker diarization, going from the audio signal to speaker clustering based on the CLR/NCLR metrics. These tools include MFCC computation, speech/non-speech detection, and speaker diarization methods."
Cost: Free (open source)
Notes: Like pyannotate-audio, this is primarily for speaker diarization rather than the kind of segmentation we want. We don't like that it assumes a gender of the speaker, though we would just never use that information if we were to use the tool.
We saw so-so results with Astin Patten lecture sample. The tool was not good at detecting a lack of speech in "silent" segments with noise, and (more troublingly) occasionally detected silence in places where there is speech. It detected 6 different speakers, and was more often than not correct in assigning a segment to the correct speaker, though we did not precisely evaluate the tool's accuracy at this task.\
For the Women and AIDs sample, the results were nearly useless. Large chunks of audio came out unlabelled despite there being near constant speech in the sample. The tool only identified one speaker, and guessed the speaker was male, when the event has many, mostly female, speakers.\
Installation & requirements
Download JAR (see documentation)
Input formats
All media formats accepted by ffmpeg (wav, mp3, mp4, etc.)
Example Usage
inaSpeechSegmenter Example
$ /usr/bin/java -Xmx2024m -jar ./LIUM_SpkDiarization.jar --fInputMask=./fileName.wav --sOutputMask=./fileName.seg --doCEClustering fileName
Example Output
In addition to start and length of speech segment, this outputs the assumed gender of the speaker (M/F) and a speaker number (S0, S1...)
astinPatten 1 0 1004 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 1004 292 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 1296 539 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 1835 1282 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 3117 722 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 3839 953 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 4792 623 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 5415 1324 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 6739 840 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 7579 1403 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 8982 421 M S U S1
astinPatten 1 9403 1504 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 10907 1099 M S U S0
astinPatten 1 12006 372 M S U S0
Evaluation summary
See Segmentation Analysis Google Doc
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