  We address talker-independent monaural speaker separation from the
perspectives of deep learning and computational auditory scene analysis (CASA).
Specifically, we decompose the multi-speaker separation task into the stages of
simultaneous grouping and sequential grouping. Simultaneous grouping is first
performed in each time frame by separating the spectra of different speakers
with a permutation-invariantly trained neural network. In the second stage, the
frame-level separated spectra are sequentially grouped to different speakers by
a clustering network. The proposed deep CASA approach optimizes frame-level
separation and speaker tracking in turn, and produces excellent results for
both objectives. Experimental results on the benchmark WSJ0-2mix database show
that the new approach achieves the state-of-the-art results with a modest model
size.
