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While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Human speech contains both linguistic content and speaker dependent characteristics making speaker verification a key technology in identity critical applications. Modern deep learning speaker verification systems aim to learn speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Nikos Chazaridis , Mohammad Belal , Rafael Mestre , Timothy J. Norman , Christine Evers

In this paper we present a new method for text-independent speaker verification that combines segmental dynamic time warping (SDTW) and the d-vector approach. The d-vectors, generated from a feed forward deep neural network trained to…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Mohamed Adel , Mohamed Afify , Akram Gaballah

In this paper, we propose an online speaker diarization system based on Relation Network, named RenoSD. Unlike conventional diariztion systems which consist of several independently-optimized modules, RenoSD implements…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Xiang Li , Yucheng Zhao , Chong Luo , Wenjun Zeng

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) rapidly advance in various fields, including speech verification, they typically involve high computational costs and substantial memory consumption, which can be challenging to manage on mobile systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Yeona Hong , Woo-Jin Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Speech activity detection (SAD), which often rests on the fact that the noise is "more" stationary than speech, is particularly challenging in non-stationary environments, because the time variance of the acoustic scene makes it difficult…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Jens Heitkaemper , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We propose supervised systems for speech activity detection (SAD) and speaker identification (SID) tasks in Fearless Steps Challenge Phase-2. The proposed systems for both the tasks share a common convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Karthik Pandia D S , Cosimo Spera

Speaker diarization, the process of identifying "who spoke when" in audio recordings, is essential for understanding classroom dynamics. However, classroom settings present distinct challenges, including poor recording quality, high levels…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ali Sartaz Khan , Tolulope Ogunremi , Ahmed Adel Attia , Dorottya Demszky

Advances of deep learning for Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs) have led to significant improvements in the performance of digital signal processing systems implemented on digital chips. Although recent progress in low-power chips is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Giorgia Dellaferrera , Flavio Martinelli , Milos Cernak

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

The x-vector based deep neural network (DNN) embedding systems have demonstrated effectiveness for text-independent speaker verification. This paper presents a multi-task learning architecture for training the speaker embedding DNN with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Lanhua You , Wu Guo , Lirong Dai , Jun Du

In this paper, we propose a new differentiable neural network alignment mechanism for text-dependent speaker verification which uses alignment models to produce a supervector representation of an utterance. Unlike previous works with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Victoria Mingote , Antonio Miguel , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

We propose an approach to extract speaker embeddings that are robust to speaking style variations in text-independent speaker verification. Typically, speaker embedding extraction includes training a DNN for speaker classification and using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Amber Afshan , Abeer Alwan

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

Speech Enhancement (SE) in audio devices is often supported by auxiliary modules for Voice Activity Detection (VAD), SNR estimation, or Acoustic Scene Classification to ensure robust context-aware behavior and seamless user experience. Just…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Riccardo Miccini , Clément Laroche , Tobias Piechowiak , Xenofon Fafoutis , Luca Pezzarossa

Deep neural network-based systems have significantly improved the performance of speaker diarization tasks. However, end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) systems often struggle to generalize to scenarios with an unseen number of speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Personalized Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) systems activate only in response to a specific target speaker. Speaker-conditioning methods are employed to inject information about the target speaker into a VAD pipeline, to achieve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad , Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Amin Edraki , Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Masoud Asgharian , Yuanhao Yu , Vahid Partovi Nia

Active speaker detection is a challenging task in audio-visual scenario understanding, which aims to detect who is speaking in one or more speakers scenarios. This task has received extensive attention as it is crucial in applications such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Junhua Liao , Haihan Duan , Kanghui Feng , Wanbing Zhao , Yanbing Yang , Liangyin Chen

Voice recognition and speaker identification are vital for applications in security and personal assistants. This paper presents a lightweight 1D-Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) designed to perform speaker identification on minimal…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Irfan Nafiz Shahan , Pulok Ahmed Auvi

Existing speaker verification (SV) systems often suffer from performance degradation if there is any language mismatch between model training, speaker enrollment, and test. A major cause of this degradation is that most existing SV methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Askar Rozi , Thomas Fang Zheng