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State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

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

Speaker diarization is one of the critical components of computational media intelligence as it enables a character-level analysis of story portrayals and media content understanding. Automated audio-based speaker diarization of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker recognition is a task of identifying persons from their voices. Recently, deep learning has dramatically revolutionized speaker recognition. However, there is lack of comprehensive reviews on the exciting progress. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Speaker diarization has gained considerable attention within speech processing research community. Mainstream speaker diarization rely primarily on speakers' voice characteristics extracted from acoustic signals and often overlook the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Qinglin Zhang , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang

In this work, we propose an overlapped speech detection system trained as a three-class classifier. Unlike conventional systems that perform binary classification as to whether or not a frame contains overlapped speech, the proposed…

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

This paper describes the ByteDance speaker diarization system for the fourth track of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 (VoxSRC-21). The VoxSRC-21 provides both the dev set and test set of VoxConverse for use in validation and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Keke Wang , Xudong Mao , Hao Wu , Chen Ding , Chuxiang Shang , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

This paper summarizes the JHU team's efforts in tracks 1 and 2 of the CHiME-6 challenge for distant multi-microphone conversational speech diarization and recognition in everyday home environments. We explore multi-array processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ashish Arora , Desh Raj , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Ke Li , Bar Ben-Yair , Matthew Maciejewski , Piotr Żelasko , Paola García , Shinji Watanabe , Sanjeev Khudanpur

This paper describes a system that generates speaker-annotated transcripts of meetings by using a microphone array and a 360-degree camera. The hallmark of the system is its ability to handle overlapped speech, which has been an unsolved…

Speaker diarization is an important pre-processing step for many speech applications, and it aims to solve the "who spoke when" problem. Although the standard diarization systems can achieve satisfactory results in various scenarios, they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Yusuke Fujita , Paola Garcia , Yiwen Shao , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

To enhance the reliability and robustness of language identification (LID) and language diarization (LD) systems for heterogeneous populations and scenarios, there is a need for speech processing models to be trained on datasets that…

Overlapping speech diarization has been traditionally treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding multiple binary labels into a single label with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

The DCASE 2018 Challenge consists of five tasks related to automatic classification and detection of sound events and scenes. This paper presents the setup of Task 5 which includes the description of the task, dataset and the baseline…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-02 Gert Dekkers , Lode Vuegen , Toon van Waterschoot , Bart Vanrumste , Peter Karsmakers

As the French, European and worldwide populations are aging, there is a strong interest for new systems that guarantee a reliable and privacy preserving home monitoring for frailty prevention. This work is a part of a global environmental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Yannis Tevissen , Dan Istrate , Vincent Zalc , Jérôme Boudy , Gérard Chollet , Frédéric Petitpont , Sami Boutamine

This paper summarises the findings from the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC-22), which was held in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022. The goal of this challenge was to evaluate how well state-of-the-art speaker…

Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) enhances the accessibility of smart devices for dysarthric speakers with limited mobility. Previously, DSR research was constrained by the fact that existing datasets typically consisted of isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiyao Wang , Jiaming Zhou , Shiwan Zhao , Yong Qin

Speaker diarization for real-life scenarios is an extremely challenging problem. Widely used clustering-based diarization approaches perform rather poorly in such conditions, mainly due to the limited ability to handle overlapping speech.…

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

Accurate transcription and speaker diarization of child-adult spoken interactions are crucial for developmental and clinical research. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and challenging to scale. Existing automated systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Somer Bishop , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

This paper describes our submission to ICASSP 2022 Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription (M2MeT) Challenge. For Track 1, we propose several approaches to empower the clustering-based speaker diarization system to handle overlapped…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Chen Shen , Yi Liu , Wenzhi Fan , Bin Wang , Shixue Wen , Yao Tian , Jun Zhang , Jingsheng Yang , Zejun Ma