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Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

We investigate the effect of speaker localization on the performance of speech recognition systems in a multispeaker, multichannel environment. Given the speaker location information, speech separation is performed in three stages. In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Sunit Sivasankaran , Emmaneul Vincent , Dominique Fohr

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

Given a multi-microphone recording of an unknown number of speakers talking concurrently, we simultaneously localize the sources and separate the individual speakers. At the core of our method is a deep network, in the waveform domain,…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Teerapat Jenrungrot , Vivek Jayaram , Steve Seitz , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias

This paper proposes a neural network based speech separation method using spatially distributed microphones. Unlike with traditional microphone array settings, neither the number of microphones nor their spatial arrangement is known in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-01 Dongmei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Speaker diarization is connected to semantic segmentation in computer vision. Inspired from MaskFormer \cite{cheng2021per} which treats semantic segmentation as a set-prediction problem, we propose an end-to-end approach to predict a set of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yongquan Lai , Xin Tang , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

Speaker diarization provides the answer to the question "who spoke when?" for an audio file. This information can be used to complete audio transcripts for further processing steps. Most speaker diarization systems assume that the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Recent advancements in speech-based topic segmentation have highlighted the potential of pretrained speech encoders to capture semantic representations directly from speech. Traditionally, topic segmentation has relied on a pipeline…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Sakshi Deo Shukla , Pavel Denisov , Tugtekin Turan

This paper introduces a novel method to separate noisy speech into low or high frequency frames, in order to improve fundamental frequency (F0) estimation accuracy. In this proposal, the target signal is analyzed by means of the ensemble…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 A. Queiroz , R. Coelho

We consider the problem of speaker diarization, the problem of segmenting an audio recording of a meeting into temporal segments corresponding to individual speakers. The problem is rendered particularly difficult by the fact that we are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-13 Emily B. Fox , Erik B. Sudderth , Michael I. Jordan , Alan S. Willsky

Although automatic emotion recognition (AER) has recently drawn significant research interest, most current AER studies use manually segmented utterances, which are usually unavailable for dialogue systems. This paper proposes integrating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Most studies on speaker verification systems focus on long-duration utterances, which are composed of sufficient phonetic information. However, the performances of these systems are known to degrade when short-duration utterances are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Seung-bin Kim , Jee-weon Jung , Hye-jin Shim , Ju-ho Kim , Ha-Jin Yu

This work presents a novel approach to leverage lexical information for speaker diarization. We introduce a speaker diarization system that can directly integrate lexical as well as acoustic information into a speaker clustering process.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tae Jin Park , Kyu Han , Ian Lane , Panayiotis Georgiou

Speaker diarization, usually denoted as the ''who spoke when'' task, turns out to be particularly challenging when applied to fictional films, where many characters talk in various acoustic conditions (background music, sound effects...).…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xavier Bost , Georges Linares

Several methods have recently been proposed to analyze speech and automatically infer the personality of the speaker. These methods often rely on prosodic and other hand crafted speech processing features extracted with off-the-shelf…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Marc-André Carbonneau , Eric Granger , Yazid Attabi , Ghyslain Gagnon

More and more neural network approaches have achieved considerable improvement upon submodules of speaker diarization system, including speaker change detection and segment-wise speaker embedding extraction. Still, in the clustering stage,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Qingjian Lin , Ruiqing Yin , Ming Li , Hervé Bredin , Claude Barras

For real-life applications, it is crucial that end-to-end spoken language translation models perform well on continuous audio, without relying on human-supplied segmentation. For online spoken language translation, where models need to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Chantal Amrhein , Barry Haddow