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Language vs Speaker Change: A Comparative Study

Audio and Speech Processing 2023-10-10 v2 Sound Signal Processing

Abstract

Spoken language change detection (LCD) refers to detecting language switching points in a multilingual speech signal. Speaker change detection (SCD) refers to locating the speaker change points in a multispeaker speech signal. The objective of this work is to understand the challenges in LCD task by comparing it with SCD task. Human subjective study for change detection is performed for LCD and SCD. This study demonstrates that LCD requires larger duration spectro-temporal information around the change point compared to SCD. Based on this, the work explores automatic distance based and model based LCD approaches. The model based ones include Gaussian mixture model and universal background model (GMM-UBM), attention, and Generative adversarial network (GAN) based approaches. Both the human and automatic LCD tasks infer that the performance of the LCD task improves by incorporating more and more spectro-temporal duration.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02680,
  title  = {Language vs Speaker Change: A Comparative Study},
  author = {Jagabandhu Mishra and S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02680},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

The work is substantially modified. The new version of the same will be submitted soon

R2 v1 2026-06-24T10:03:04.166Z