Tiny VAD refactoring for postprocessing

examples/asr/conf/vad/vad_inference_postprocessing.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ num_workers: 4
 sample_rate: 16000
 
 # functionality
-gen_overlap_seq: True # whether to generate predictions with overlapping input segments and smoothing filter
 gen_seg_table: True # whether to converting frame level prediction to speech/no-speech segment in start and end times format
 write_to_manifest: True # whether to writing above segments to a single manifest json file.
 

examples/asr/speech_classification/vad_infer.py

@@ -122,9 +122,10 @@ def main(cfg):
     logging.info(
         f"Finish generating VAD frame level prediction with window_length_in_sec={cfg.vad.parameters.window_length_in_sec} and shift_length_in_sec={cfg.vad.parameters.shift_length_in_sec}"
     )
+    frame_length_in_sec = cfg.vad.parameters.shift_length_in_sec
 
     # overlap smoothing filter
-    if cfg.gen_overlap_seq:
+    if cfg.vad.parameters.smoothing:
         # Generate predictions with overlapping input segments. Then a smoothing filter is applied to decide the label for a frame spanned by multiple segments.
         # smoothing_method would be either in majority vote (median) or average (mean)
         logging.info("Generating predictions with overlapping input segments")
@@ -141,14 +142,15 @@ def main(cfg):
             f"Finish generating predictions with overlapping input segments with smoothing_method={cfg.vad.parameters.smoothing} and overlap={cfg.vad.parameters.overlap}"
         )
         pred_dir = smoothing_pred_dir
+        frame_length_in_sec = 0.01
 
     # postprocessing and generate speech segments
     if cfg.gen_seg_table:
         logging.info("Converting frame level prediction to speech/no-speech segment in start and end times format.")
         table_out_dir = generate_vad_segment_table(
             vad_pred_dir=pred_dir,
             postprocessing_params=cfg.vad.parameters.postprocessing,
-            shift_length_in_sec=cfg.vad.parameters.shift_length_in_sec,
+            frame_length_in_sec=frame_length_in_sec,
             num_workers=cfg.num_workers,
             out_dir=cfg.table_out_dir,
         )

nemo/collections/asr/models/clustering_diarizer.py

@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ def _run_vad(self, manifest_file):
         if not self._vad_params.smoothing:
             # Shift the window by 10ms to generate the frame and use the prediction of the window to represent the label for the frame;
             self.vad_pred_dir = self._vad_dir
+            frame_length_in_sec = self._vad_shift_length_in_sec
         else:
             # Generate predictions with overlapping input segments. Then a smoothing filter is applied to decide the label for a frame spanned by multiple segments.
             # smoothing_method would be either in majority vote (median) or average (mean)
@@ -250,13 +251,14 @@ def _run_vad(self, manifest_file):
                 num_workers=self._cfg.num_workers,
             )
             self.vad_pred_dir = smoothing_pred_dir
+            frame_length_in_sec = 0.01
 
         logging.info("Converting frame level prediction to speech/no-speech segment in start and end times format.")
 
         table_out_dir = generate_vad_segment_table(
             vad_pred_dir=self.vad_pred_dir,
             postprocessing_params=self._vad_params,
-            shift_length_in_sec=self._vad_shift_length_in_sec,
+            frame_length_in_sec=frame_length_in_sec,
             num_workers=self._cfg.num_workers,
         )
 

nemo/collections/asr/parts/utils/vad_utils.py

@@ -459,12 +459,12 @@ def binarization(sequence: torch.Tensor, per_args: Dict[str, float]) -> torch.Te
             offset (float): offset threshold for detecting the end of a speech. 
             pad_onset (float): adding durations before each speech segment
             pad_offset (float): adding durations after each speech segment;
-            shift_length_in_sec (float): amount of shift of window for generating the frame.
+            frame_length_in_sec (float): length of frame.
 
     Returns:
         speech_segments(torch.Tensor): A tensor of speech segment in torch.Tensor([[start1, end1], [start2, end2]]) format. 
     """
-    shift_length_in_sec = per_args.get('shift_length_in_sec', 0.01)
+    frame_length_in_sec = per_args.get('frame_length_in_sec', 0.01)
 
     onset = per_args.get('onset', 0.5)
     offset = per_args.get('offset', 0.5)
@@ -477,30 +477,30 @@ def binarization(sequence: torch.Tensor, per_args: Dict[str, float]) -> torch.Te
 
     speech_segments = torch.empty(0)
 
-    for i in range(1, len(sequence)):
+    for i in range(0, len(sequence)):
         # Current frame is speech
         if speech:
             # Switch from speech to non-speech
             if sequence[i] < offset:
-                if i * shift_length_in_sec + pad_offset > max(0, start - pad_onset):
+                if i * frame_length_in_sec + pad_offset > max(0, start - pad_onset):
                     new_seg = torch.tensor(
-                        [max(0, start - pad_onset), i * shift_length_in_sec + pad_offset]
+                        [max(0, start - pad_onset), i * frame_length_in_sec + pad_offset]
                     ).unsqueeze(0)
                     speech_segments = torch.cat((speech_segments, new_seg), 0)
 
-                start = i * shift_length_in_sec
+                start = i * frame_length_in_sec
                 speech = False
 
         # Current frame is non-speech
         else:
             # Switch from non-speech to speech
             if sequence[i] > onset:
-                start = i * shift_length_in_sec
+                start = i * frame_length_in_sec
                 speech = True
 
     # if it's speech at the end, add final segment
     if speech:
-        new_seg = torch.tensor([max(0, start - pad_onset), i * shift_length_in_sec + pad_offset]).unsqueeze(0)
+        new_seg = torch.tensor([max(0, start - pad_onset), i * frame_length_in_sec + pad_offset]).unsqueeze(0)
         speech_segments = torch.cat((speech_segments, new_seg), 0)
 
     # Merge the overlapped speech segments due to padding
@@ -627,8 +627,8 @@ def generate_vad_segment_table_per_tensor(sequence: torch.Tensor, per_args: Dict
     See description in generate_overlap_vad_seq.
     Use this for single instance pipeline. 
     """
+    UNIT_FRAME_LEN = 0.01
 
-    shift_length_in_sec = per_args['shift_length_in_sec']
     speech_segments = binarization(sequence, per_args)
     speech_segments = filtering(speech_segments, per_args)
 
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ def generate_vad_segment_table_per_tensor(sequence: torch.Tensor, per_args: Dict
 
     speech_segments, _ = torch.sort(speech_segments, 0)
 
-    dur = speech_segments[:, 1:2] - speech_segments[:, 0:1] + shift_length_in_sec
+    dur = speech_segments[:, 1:2] - speech_segments[:, 0:1] + UNIT_FRAME_LEN
     speech_segments = torch.column_stack((speech_segments, dur))
 
     return speech_segments
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ def generate_vad_segment_table_per_file(pred_filepath: str, per_args: dict) -> s
 
 
 def generate_vad_segment_table(
-    vad_pred_dir: str, postprocessing_params: dict, shift_length_in_sec: float, num_workers: int, out_dir: str = None,
+    vad_pred_dir: str, postprocessing_params: dict, frame_length_in_sec: float, num_workers: int, out_dir: str = None,
 ) -> str:
     """
     Convert frame level prediction to speech segment in start and end times format.
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ def generate_vad_segment_table(
     Args:
         vad_pred_dir (str): directory of prediction files to be processed.
         postprocessing_params (dict): dictionary of thresholds for prediction score. See details in binarization and filtering.
-        shift_length_in_sec (float): amount of shift of window for generating the frame.
+        frame_length_in_sec (float): frame length. 
         out_dir (str): output dir of generated table/csv file.
         num_workers(float): number of process for multiprocessing
     Returns:
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ def generate_vad_segment_table(
         os.mkdir(table_out_dir)
 
     per_args = {
-        "shift_length_in_sec": shift_length_in_sec,
+        "frame_length_in_sec": frame_length_in_sec,
         "out_dir": table_out_dir,
     }
     per_args = {**per_args, **postprocessing_params}
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ def vad_tune_threshold_on_dev(
     result_file: str = "res",
     vad_pred_method: str = "frame",
     focus_metric: str = "DetER",
-    shift_length_in_sec: float = 0.01,
+    frame_length_in_sec: float = 0.01,
     num_workers: int = 20,
 ) -> Tuple[dict, dict]:
     """
@@ -788,6 +788,8 @@ def vad_tune_threshold_on_dev(
         vad_pred_method (str): suffix of prediction file. Use to locate file. Should be either in "frame", "mean" or "median".
         groundtruth_RTTM_dir (str): directory of ground-truth rttm files or a file contains the paths of them.
         focus_metric (str): metrics we care most when tuning threshold. Should be either in "DetER", "FA", "MISS"
+        frame_length_in_sec (float): frame length.
+        num_workers (int): number of workers.
     Returns:
         best_threshold (float): threshold that gives lowest DetER.
     """
@@ -810,7 +812,7 @@ def vad_tune_threshold_on_dev(
             # Generate speech segments by performing binarization on the VAD prediction according to param.
             # Filter speech segments according to param and write the result to rttm-like table.
             vad_table_dir = generate_vad_segment_table(
-                vad_pred, param, shift_length_in_sec=shift_length_in_sec, num_workers=num_workers
+                vad_pred, param, frame_length_in_sec=frame_length_in_sec, num_workers=num_workers
             )
             # add reference and hypothesis to metrics
             for filename in paired_filenames:
@@ -938,14 +940,14 @@ def plot(
         per_args(dict): a dict that stores the thresholds for postprocessing.
     """
     plt.figure(figsize=[20, 2])
-    FRAME_LEN = 0.01
+    UNIT_FRAME_LEN = 0.01
 
     audio, sample_rate = librosa.load(path=path2audio_file, sr=16000, mono=True, offset=offset, duration=duration)
     dur = librosa.get_duration(y=audio, sr=sample_rate)
 
-    time = np.arange(offset, offset + dur, FRAME_LEN)
+    time = np.arange(offset, offset + dur, UNIT_FRAME_LEN)
     frame, _ = load_tensor_from_file(path2_vad_pred)
-    frame_snippet = frame[int(offset / FRAME_LEN) : int((offset + dur) / FRAME_LEN)]
+    frame_snippet = frame[int(offset / UNIT_FRAME_LEN) : int((offset + dur) / UNIT_FRAME_LEN)]
 
     len_pred = len(frame_snippet)
     ax1 = plt.subplot()
@@ -969,14 +971,14 @@ def plot(
         )  # take whole frame here for calculating onset and offset
         speech_segments = generate_vad_segment_table_per_tensor(frame, per_args_float)
         pred = gen_pred_from_speech_segments(speech_segments, frame)
-        pred_snippet = pred[int(offset / FRAME_LEN) : int((offset + dur) / FRAME_LEN)]
+        pred_snippet = pred[int(offset / UNIT_FRAME_LEN) : int((offset + dur) / UNIT_FRAME_LEN)]
 
     if path2ground_truth_label:
         label = extract_labels(path2ground_truth_label, time)
-        ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * FRAME_LEN, label, 'r', label='label')
+        ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * UNIT_FRAME_LEN, label, 'r', label='label')
 
-    ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * FRAME_LEN, pred_snippet, 'b', label='pred')
-    ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * FRAME_LEN, frame_snippet, 'g--', label='speech prob')
+    ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * UNIT_FRAME_LEN, pred_snippet, 'b', label='pred')
+    ax2.plot(np.arange(len_pred) * UNIT_FRAME_LEN, frame_snippet, 'g--', label='speech prob')
     ax2.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor='r')
     ax2.legend(loc='lower right', shadow=True)
     ax2.set_ylabel('Preds and Probas')

scripts/voice_activity_detection/vad_overlap_posterior.py

@@ -83,19 +83,19 @@
         start = time.time()
         logging.info("Converting frame level prediction to speech/no-speech segment in start and end times format.")
 
+        frame_length_in_sec = args.shift_length_in_sec
         if args.gen_overlap_seq:
             logging.info("Use overlap prediction. Change if you want to use basic frame level prediction")
             vad_pred_dir = overlap_out_dir
-            shift_length_in_sec = 0.01
+            frame_length_in_sec = 0.01
         else:
             logging.info("Use basic frame level prediction")
             vad_pred_dir = args.frame_folder
-            shift_length_in_sec = args.shift_length_in_sec
 
         table_out_dir = generate_vad_segment_table(
             vad_pred_dir=vad_pred_dir,
             postprocessing_params=postprocessing_params,
-            shift_length_in_sec=args.shift_length_in_sec,
+            frame_length_in_sec=frame_length_in_sec,
             num_workers=args.num_workers,
             out_dir=args.table_out_dir,
         )

scripts/voice_activity_detection/vad_tune_threshold.py

@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@
         type=str,
         default='DetER',
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--frame_length_in_sec", help="frame_length_in_sec ", type=float, default=0.01,
+    )
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     params = {}
@@ -125,7 +128,13 @@
         )
 
     best_threhsold, optimal_scores = vad_tune_threshold_on_dev(
-        params, args.vad_pred, args.groundtruth_RTTM, args.result_file, args.vad_pred_method, args.focus_metric
+        params,
+        args.vad_pred,
+        args.groundtruth_RTTM,
+        args.result_file,
+        args.vad_pred_method,
+        args.focus_metric,
+        args.frame_length_in_sec,
     )
     logging.info(
         f"Best combination of thresholds for binarization selected from input ranges is {best_threhsold}, and the optimal score is {optimal_scores}"