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This paper presents a computationally efficient and distributed speaker diarization framework for networked IoT-style audio devices. The work proposes a Federated Learning model which can identify the participants in a conversation without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

This paper describes Asteroid, the PyTorch-based audio source separation toolkit for researchers. Inspired by the most successful neural source separation systems, it provides all neural building blocks required to build such a system. To…

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Speaker diarization is the task of partitioning audio into segments according to speaker identity, answering the question of "who spoke when" in multi-speaker conversation recordings. While diarization is an essential task for many…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla , Cesare Blaser , Roger Wattenhofer

This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (S2SND) framework to perform online and offline speaker diarization. It is developed from the sequence-to-sequence architecture of our previous target-speaker voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Ming Cheng , Yuke Lin , Ming Li

There are many packages in Python which allow one to perform real-time processing on audio data. Unfortunately, due to the synchronous nature of the language, there lacks a framework which allows for distributed parallel processing of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-18 Nicolas Shu , David V. Anderson

We proposed a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and recognition without prior registration and pretraining in a fully online learning setting. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

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

Speaker diarization relies on the assumption that speech segments corresponding to a particular speaker are concentrated in a specific region of the speaker space; a region which represents that speaker's identity. These identities are not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

This work introduces the key operating principles for autrainer, our new deep learning training framework for computer audition tasks. autrainer is a PyTorch-based toolkit that allows for rapid, reproducible, and easily extensible training…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Simon Rampp , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Manuel Milling , Björn W. Schuller

We study two foundational problems in audio language models: (1) how to design an audio tokenizer that can serve as an intermediate representation for both understanding and generation; and (2) how to build an audio foundation model that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Dongchao Yang , Yuanyuan Wang , Dading Chong , Songxiang Liu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly central to understanding how the brain processes information. However, the integration of neuroscience and modern AI is bottlenecked by a fragmented software ecosystem. Current tools are siloed…

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

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 the speech signal, acoustic landmarks identify times when the acoustic manifestations of the linguistically motivated distinctive features are most salient. Acoustic landmarks have been widely applied in various domains, including speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Xiangyu Zhang , Daijiao Liu , Tianyi Xiao , Cihan Xiao , Tuende Szalay , Mostafa Shahin , Beena Ahmed , Julien Epps

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

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

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

End-to-end neural diarization has evolved considerably over the past few years, but data scarcity is still a major obstacle for further improvements. Self-supervised learning methods such as WavLM have shown promising performance on several…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Anna Silnova , Mireia Diez , Lukas Burget