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Improving End-to-End Neural Diarization Using Conversational Summary Representations

Sound 2023-06-27 v1 Audio and Speech Processing

Abstract

Speaker diarization is a task concerned with partitioning an audio recording by speaker identity. End-to-end neural diarization with encoder-decoder based attractor calculation (EEND-EDA) aims to solve this problem by directly outputting diarization results for a flexible number of speakers. Currently, the EDA module responsible for generating speaker-wise attractors is conditioned on zero vectors providing no relevant information to the network. In this work, we extend EEND-EDA by replacing the input zero vectors to the decoder with learned conversational summary representations. The updated EDA module sequentially generates speaker-wise attractors based on utterance-level information. We propose three methods to initialize the summary vector and conduct an investigation into varying input recording lengths. On a range of publicly available test sets, our model achieves an absolute DER performance improvement of 1.90 % when compared to the baseline.

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@article{arxiv.2306.13863,
  title  = {Improving End-to-End Neural Diarization Using Conversational Summary Representations},
  author = {Samuel J. Broughton and Lahiru Samarakoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13863},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, INTERSPEECH 2023

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