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This paper presents the system developed to address the MISP 2025 Challenge. For the diarization system, we proposed a hybrid approach combining a WavLM end-to-end segmentation method with a traditional multi-module clustering technique to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shangkun Huang , Yuxuan Du , Jingwen Yang , Dejun Zhang , Xupeng Jia , Jing Deng , Jintao Kang , Rong Zheng

In this paper, we present the submitted system for the second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKULENOVO team. Our diarization system includes multiple modules, namely voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Qingjian Lin , Weicheng Cai , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jun Zhang , Ming Li

In this paper, we present a conditional multitask learning method for end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND). The EEND system has shown promising performance compared with traditional clustering-based methods, especially in the case…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Yuki Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Paola García , Kenji Nagamatsu

In spite of the popularity of end-to-end diarization systems nowadays, modular systems comprised of voice activity detection (VAD), speaker embedding extraction plus clustering, and overlapped speech detection (OSD) plus handling still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Petr Pálka , Federico Landini , Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget

Diarization is a crucial component in meeting transcription systems to ease the challenges of speech enhancement and attribute the transcriptions to the correct speaker. Particularly in the presence of overlapping or noisy speech, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

In the task of speaker diarization, the number of small-scale meetings accounts for a large proportion. When microphone arrays are employed as a recording device, its spatial information is usually ignored by most researchers. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yuxuan Du , Ruohua Zhou

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

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

In this paper, we propose a quality-aware end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization framework, which comprises three key techniques. First, our audio-visual model takes both audio and visual features as inputs, utilizing a series…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mao-Kui He , Jun Du , Shu-Tong Niu , Qing-Feng Liu , Chin-Hui Lee

Multi-talker overlapped speech poses a significant challenge for speech recognition and diarization. Recent research indicated that these two tasks are inter-dependent and complementary, motivating us to explore a unified modeling method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Lingwei Meng , Jiawen Kang , Mingyu Cui , Haibin Wu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Overlapping speech remains a major challenge for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in real-world applications, particularly in broadcast media with dynamic, multi-speaker interactions. We propose a light-weight, target-speaker-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Aleš Pražák , Marie Kunešová , Josef Psutka

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…

Recent speaker diarization studies showed that integration of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) and clustering-based diarization is a promising approach for achieving state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. Such an approach first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Keisuke Kinoshita , Thilo von Neumann , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Speaker diarisation systems nowadays use embeddings generated from speech segments in a bottleneck layer, which are needed to be discriminative for unseen speakers. It is well-known that large-margin training can improve the generalisation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yassir Fathullah , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

The most common approach to speaker diarization is clustering of speaker embeddings. However, the clustering-based approach has a number of problems; i.e., (i) it is not optimized to minimize diarization errors directly, (ii) it cannot…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

The performance of speaker verification degrades significantly when the test speech is corrupted by interference speakers. Speaker diarization does well to separate speakers if the speakers are temporally overlapped. However, if…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-08 Wei Rao , Chenglin Xu , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

We propose a modified teacher-student training for the extraction of frame-wise speaker embeddings that allows for an effective diarization of meeting scenarios containing partially overlapping speech. To this end, a geodesic distance loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach