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This paper describes our submission to Task 1 of the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) challenge 2020. Task 1 is a text-dependent speaker verification task, where both the speaker and phrase are required to be verified. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Sung Hwan Mun , Woo Hyun Kang , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Recent research shows that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be used to extract deep speaker vectors (d-vectors) that preserve speaker characteristics and can be used in speaker verification. This new method has been tested on text-dependent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

In multi-speaker applications is common to have pre-computed models from enrolled speakers. Using these models to identify the instances in which these speakers intervene in a recording is the task of speaker tracking. In this paper, we…

Recently, speaker embeddings extracted from a speaker discriminative deep neural network (DNN) yield better performance than the conventional methods such as i-vector. In most cases, the DNN speaker classifier is trained using cross entropy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Xu Xiang , Shuai Wang , Houjun Huang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

Recently, speaker embeddings extracted with deep neural networks became the state-of-the-art method for speaker verification. In this paper we aim to facilitate its implementation on a more generic toolkit than Kaldi, which we anticipate to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Hossein Zeinali , Lukas Burget , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Jan Cernocky

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based embedding methods have been proposed and have shown impressive performance in speaker verification. However, as in most of the classical embedding techniques, the deep learning-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Woo Hyun Kang , Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

This paper proposes novel algorithms for speaker embedding using subjective inter-speaker similarity based on deep neural networks (DNNs). Although conventional DNN-based speaker embedding such as a $d$-vector can be applied to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Modern automatic speaker verification relies largely on deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) features. While there are alternative feature extraction methods based on phase, prosody and long-term…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Neural speaker embeddings encode the speaker's speech characteristics through a DNN model and are prevalent for speaker verification tasks. However, few studies have investigated the usage of neural speaker embeddings for an ASR system. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Christoph Lüscher , Jingjing Xu , Mohammad Zeineldeen , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Significant progress has recently been made in speaker diarisation after the introduction of d-vectors as speaker embeddings extracted from neural network (NN) speaker classifiers for clustering speech segments. To extract better-performing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

We propose SpeakerNet - a new neural architecture for speaker recognition and speaker verification tasks. It is composed of residual blocks with 1D depth-wise separable convolutions, batch-normalization, and ReLU layers. This architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jason Li , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually hand-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Pawel Cyrta , Tomasz Trzciński , Wojciech Stokowiec

Separating different speaker properties from a multi-speaker environment is challenging. Instead of separating a two-speaker signal in signal space like speech source separation, a speaker embedding de-mixing approach is proposed. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yanpei Shi , Thomas Hain

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

This paper proposes a serialized multi-layer multi-head attention for neural speaker embedding in text-independent speaker verification. In prior works, frame-level features from one layer are aggregated to form an utterance-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hongning Zhu , Kong Aik Lee , Haizhou Li

This paper explores three novel approaches to improve the performance of speaker verification (SV) systems based on deep neural networks (DNN) using Multi-head Self-Attention (MSA) mechanisms and memory layers. Firstly, we propose the use…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Victoria Mingote , Antonio Miguel , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to learn speaker features. However, the quality of the learned features is not sufficiently good, so a complex back-end model, either neural or probabilistic, has to be used to address the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Lantian Li , Yixiang Chen , Ying Shi , Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang

Speaker embeddings become growing popular in the text-independent speaker verification task. In this paper, we propose two improvements during the training stage. The improvements are both based on triplet cause the training stage and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Zongze Ren , Zhiyong Chen , Shugong Xu

Deep speaker embeddings have become the leading method for encoding speaker identity in speaker recognition tasks. The embedding space should ideally capture the variations between all possible speakers, encoding the multiple acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Speaker embeddings achieve promising results on many speaker verification tasks. Phonetic information, as an important component of speech, is rarely considered in the extraction of speaker embeddings. In this paper, we introduce phonetic…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Yi Liu , Liang He , Jia Liu , Michael T. Johnson