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Voice activity and overlapped speech detection (respectively VAD and OSD) are key pre-processing tasks for speaker diarization. The final segmentation performance highly relies on the robustness of these sub-tasks. Recent studies have shown…

The ConferencingSpeech 2021 challenge is proposed to stimulate research on far-field multi-channel speech enhancement for video conferencing. The challenge consists of two separate tasks: 1) Task 1 is multi-channel speech enhancement with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Wei Rao , Yihui Fu , Yanxin Hu , Xin Xu , Yvkai Jv , Jiangyu Han , Zhongjie Jiang , Lei Xie , Yannan Wang , Shinji Watanabe , Zheng-Hua Tan , Hui Bu , Tao Yu , Shidong Shang

Attractor-based end-to-end diarization is achieving comparable accuracy to the carefully tuned conventional clustering-based methods on challenging datasets. However, the main drawback is that it cannot deal with the case where the number…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Yawen Xue , Yuki Takashima , Yohei Kawaguchi

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

This paper describes the TSUP team's submission to the ISCSLP 2022 conversational short-phrase speaker diarization (CSSD) challenge which particularly focuses on short-phrase conversations with a new evaluation metric called conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bowen Pang , Huan Zhao , Gaosheng Zhang , Xiaoyue Yang , Yang Sun , Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

The goal of this paper is to adapt speaker embeddings for solving the problem of speaker diarisation. The quality of speaker embeddings is paramount to the performance of speaker diarisation systems. Despite this, prior works in the field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Youngki Kwon , Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

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

Recent diarization technologies can be categorized into two approaches, i.e., clustering and end-to-end neural approaches, which have different pros and cons. The clustering-based approaches assign speaker labels to speech regions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

We introduce the first Natural Office Talkers in Settings of Far-field Audio Recordings (``NOTSOFAR-1'') Challenge alongside datasets and baseline system. The challenge focuses on distant speaker diarization and automatic speech recognition…

This paper describes the system developed by the BUT team for the fourth track of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge, focusing on diarization on the VoxConverse dataset. The system consists of signal pre-processing, voice activity…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-10 Federico Landini , Ondřej Glembek , Pavel Matějka , Johan Rohdin , Lukáš Burget , Mireia Diez , Anna Silnova

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

In hours-long meeting scenarios, real-time speech stream often struggles with achieving accurate speaker diarization, commonly leading to speaker identification and speaker count errors. To address this challenge, we propose SCDiar, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Naijun Zheng , Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Zhou Huan

Nowadays, the large amount of audio-visual content available has fostered the need to develop new robust automatic speaker diarization systems to analyse and characterise it. This kind of system helps to reduce the cost of doing this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Victoria Mingote , Alfonso Ortega , Antonio Miguel , Eduardo Lleida

This paper describes system setup of our submission to speaker diarisation track (Track 4) of VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020. Our diarisation system consists of a well-trained neural network based speech enhancement model as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Renyu Wang , Ruilin Tong , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

The CHiME-7 and 8 distant speech recognition (DASR) challenges focus on multi-channel, generalizable, joint automatic speech recognition (ASR) and diarization of conversational speech. With participation from 9 teams submitting 32 diverse…

Neural speaker diarization is widely used for overlap-aware speaker diarization, but it requires large multi-speaker datasets for training. To meet this data requirement, large datasets are often constructed by combining multiple corpora,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Shota Horiguchi , Naohiro Tawara , Takanori Ashihara , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix

Speaker diarization accuracy can be affected by both acoustics and conversation characteristics. Determining the cause of diarization errors is difficult because speaker voice acoustics and conversation structure co-vary, and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Scott Seyfarth , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Katrin Kirchhoff

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…

We held the second installment of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge in conjunction with Interspeech 2020. The goal of this challenge was to assess how well current speaker recognition technology is able to diarise and recognize…

Recently, hybrid systems of clustering and neural diarization models have been successfully applied in multi-party meeting analysis. However, current models always treat overlapped speaker diarization as a multi-label classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan