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In speaker diarisation, speaker embedding extraction models often suffer from the mismatch between their training loss functions and the speaker clustering method. In this paper, we propose the method of spectral clustering-aware learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Evonne P. C. Lee , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

This paper describes the Microsoft speaker diarization system for monaural multi-talker recordings in the wild, evaluated at the diarization track of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge(VoxSRC) 2020. We will first explain our system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka , Sanyuan Chen , Yong Zhao , Gang Liu , Yu Wu , Jian Wu , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

The performance of most speaker diarization systems with x-vector embeddings is both vulnerable to noisy environments and lacks domain robustness. Earlier work on speaker diarization using generative adversarial network (GAN) with an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Tae Jin Park , So Hyun Kim , Catherine Lord , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper, we address the problem of speaker recognition in challenging acoustic conditions using a novel method to extract robust speaker-discriminative speech representations. We adopt a recently proposed unsupervised adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Raghuveer Peri , Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limited due to the scarcity of large-scale conversational data…

Dysarthric speech recognition faces challenges from severity variations and disparities relative to normal speech. Conventional approaches individually fine-tune ASR models pre-trained on normal speech per patient to prevent feature…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qing Xiao , Yingshan Peng , PeiPei Zhang

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) aims to transcribe speech while assigning transcripts to the corresponding speakers accurately. Existing methods often rely on complex modular systems or require extensive fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Thai-Binh Nguyen , Alexander Waibel

Many of the recent advances in speech separation are primarily aimed at synthetic mixtures of short audio utterances with high degrees of overlap. Most of these approaches need an additional stitching step to stitch the separated speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Katrin Kirchhoff , Daniel Garcia-Romero

Speaker recognition performance has been greatly improved with the emergence of deep learning. Deep neural networks show the capacity to effectively deal with impacts of noise and reverberation, making them attractive to far-field speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Wenda Chen , Jonathan Huang , Tobias Bocklet

DER is the primary metric to evaluate diarization performance while facing a dilemma: the errors in short utterances or segments tend to be overwhelmed by longer ones. Short segments, e.g., `yes' or `no,' still have semantic information.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Tao Liu , Kai Yu

Speaker diarization remains challenging due to the need for structured speaker representations, efficient modeling, and robustness to varying conditions. We propose a performant, compact diarization framework that integrates conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

Second pass rescoring is a critical component of competitive automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Large language models have demonstrated their ability in using pre-trained information for better rescoring of ASR hypothesis.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Jari Kolehmainen , Yile Gu , Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow , Ivan Bulyko

Speaker diarization is the process of labeling different speakers in a speech signal. Deep speaker embeddings are generally extracted from short speech segments and clustered to determine the segments belong to same speaker identity. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Myungjong Kim , Vijendra Raj Apsingekar , Divya Neelagiri

Identifying the identity of the speaker of short segments in human dialogue has been considered one of the most challenging problems in speech signal processing. Speaker representations of short speech segments tend to be unreliable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Tae Jin Park , Manoj Kumar , Shrikanth Narayanan

Spoken language diarization (LD) and related tasks are mostly explored using the phonotactic approach. Phonotactic approaches mostly use explicit way of language modeling, hence requiring intermediate phoneme modeling and transcribed data.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-23 Jagabandhu Mishra , Amartya Chowdhury , S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

In conversational speech, the acoustic signal provides cues that help listeners disambiguate difficult parses. For automatically parsing spoken utterances, we introduce a model that integrates transcribed text and acoustic-prosodic features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Trang Tran , Shubham Toshniwal , Mohit Bansal , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu , Mari Ostendorf

Automatic Speech Recognition involves mainly two steps; feature extraction and classification . Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient is used as one of the prominent feature extraction techniques in ASR. Usually, the set of all 12 MFCC…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Sarika Hegde , K. K. Achary , Surendra Shetty

Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have emerged as a crucial paradigm in recent years, extending the capabilities of traditional LLMs to speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken dialogue modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Phurich Saengthong , Boonnithi Jiaramaneepinit , Sheng Li , Manabu Okumura , Takahiro Shinozaki

Speech enhancement has seen great improvement in recent years using end-to-end neural networks. However, most models are agnostic to the spoken phonetic content. Recently, several studies suggested phonetic-aware speech enhancement, mostly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Or Tal , Moshe Mandel , Felix Kreuk , Yossi Adi