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The scarcity of labeled far-field speech is a constraint for training superior far-field speaker verification systems. Fine-tuning the model pre-trained on large-scale near-field speech substantially outperforms training from scratch.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Hongji Wang , Yue Li , Wei Rao , Yannan Wang , Lei Xie

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

Speaker verification (SV) utilizing features obtained from models pre-trained via self-supervised learning has recently demonstrated impressive performances. However, these pre-trained models (PTMs) usually have a temporal resolution of 20…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Jisoo Myoung , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

We present a novel source separation model to decompose asingle-channel speech signal into two speech segments belonging to two different speakers. The proposed model is a neural network based on residual blocks, and uses learnt speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Shuo Liu , Gil Keren , Björn Schuller

Face recognition has achieved great progress owing to the fast development of the deep neural network in the past a few years. As an important part of deep neural networks, a number of the loss functions have been proposed which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Xin Wei , Hui Wang , Bryan Scotney , Huan Wan

Background noise is a well-known factor that deteriorates the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems by blurring speech intelligibility. Various studies have used separate pretrained enhancement models as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hye-jin Shim , Ha-Jin Yu

The mismatch between close-set training and open-set testing usually leads to significant performance degradation for speaker verification task. For existing loss functions, metric learning-based objectives depend strongly on searching…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

This paper proposes an additive phoneme-aware margin softmax (APM-Softmax) loss to train the multi-task learning network with phonetic information for language recognition. In additive margin softmax (AM-Softmax) loss, the margin is set as…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Zheng Li , Yan Liu , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Speaker identification systems in a real-world scenario are tasked to identify a speaker amongst a set of enrolled speakers given just a few samples for each enrolled speaker. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of meta-learning and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Ashutosh Chaubey , Sparsh Sinha , Susmita Ghose

Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separation (BSS) counterpart with a similar network architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zifeng Zhao , Dongchao Yang , Rongzhi Gu , Haoran Zhang , Yuexian Zou

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Recent speaker verification (SV) systems have shown a trend toward adopting deeper speaker embedding extractors. Although deeper and larger neural networks can significantly improve performance, their substantial memory requirements hinder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Bei Liu , Yanmin Qian

In the field of speaker verification, session or channel variability poses a significant challenge. While many contemporary methods aim to disentangle session information from speaker embeddings, we introduce a novel approach using an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Hee-Soo Heo , KiHyun Nam , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Minjae Lee , You Jin Kim , Joon Son Chung

We present the recent advances along with an error analysis of the IBM speaker recognition system for conversational speech. Some of the key advancements that contribute to our system include: a nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis (NDA)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Seyed Omid Sadjadi , Jason Pelecanos , Sriram Ganapathy

In this paper, we conduct a cross-dataset study on parametric and non-parametric raw-waveform based speaker embeddings through speaker verification experiments. In general, we observe a more significant performance degradation of these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Ge Zhu , Frank Cwitkowitz , Zhiyao Duan

Automatic detection of speaker confidence is critical for adaptive computing but remains constrained by limited labelled data and the subjectivity of paralinguistic annotations. This paper proposes a semi-supervised hybrid framework that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Adam Wynn , Jingyun Wang

One of the most important parts of an end-to-end speaker verification system is the speaker embedding generation. In our previous paper, we reported that shortcut connections-based multi-layer aggregation improves the representational power…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Soonshin Seo , Ji-Hwan Kim

Recently, hyperspherical embeddings have established themselves as a dominant technique for face and voice recognition. Specifically, Euclidean space vector embeddings are learned to encode person-specific information in their direction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Nikita Kuzmin , Igor Fedorov , Alexey Sholokhov

For the speaker-controlled spoken language identification task proposed in the TidyLang Challenge 2026, this paper proposes a language identification method based on pre-trained models and margin-based losses. The proposed method adopts a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Weiwu Jiang

Research in speaker recognition has recently seen significant progress due to the application of neural network models and the availability of new large-scale datasets. There has been a plethora of work in search for more powerful…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Joon Son Chung , Jaesung Huh , Seongkyu Mun