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Overlapping speech diarization is always treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding the multi-speaker labels with power set. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Ming Lei

In this paper, different online speaker diarization systems are evaluated on the same hardware with the same test data with regard to their latency. The latency is the time span from audio input to the output of the corresponding speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

Learning robust speaker embeddings is a crucial step in speaker diarization. Deep neural networks can accurately capture speaker discriminative characteristics and popular deep embeddings such as x-vectors are nowadays a fundamental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Nauman Dawalatabad , Mirco Ravanelli , François Grondin , Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Hwidong Na

Soundata is a Python library for loading and working with audio datasets in a standardized way, removing the need for writing custom loaders in every project, and improving reproducibility by providing tools to validate data against a…

We introduce a sophisticated multi-speaker speech data simulator, specifically engineered to generate multi-speaker speech recordings. A notable feature of this simulator is its capacity to modulate the distribution of silence and overlap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Tae Jin Park , He Huang , Coleman Hooper , Nithin Koluguri , Kunal Dhawan , Ante Jukic , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Existing speaker diarization systems typically rely on large amounts of manually annotated data, which is labor-intensive and difficult to obtain, especially in real-world scenarios. Additionally, language-specific constraints in these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Phat Lam , Lam Pham , Truong Nguyen , Dat Ngo , Thinh Pham , Tin Nguyen , Loi Khanh Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

Closed-Set speaker identification aims to assign a speech utterance to one of a predefined set of enrolled speakers and requires robust modeling of speaker-specific characteristics across multiple temporal scales. While recent deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yassin Terraf , Youssef Iraqi

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

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

Automating child speech analysis is crucial for applications such as neurocognitive assessments. Speaker diarization, which identifies ``who spoke when'', is an essential component of the automated analysis. However, publicly available…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end neural-network-based speaker diarization method. Unlike most existing methods, our proposed method does not have separate modules for extraction and clustering of speaker representations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

This work presents a novel approach for speaker diarization to leverage lexical information provided by automatic speech recognition. We propose a speaker diarization system that can incorporate word-level speaker turn probabilities with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Tae Jin Park , Kyu J. Han , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

In this work, we propose an error correction framework, named DiaCorrect, to refine the output of a diarization system in a simple yet effective way. This method is inspired by error correction techniques in automatic speech recognition.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Mireia Diez , Lukas Burget , Yuhang Cao , Heng Lu , Jan Cernocky

Speaker diarization (SD) is the task of answering "who spoke when" in a multi-speaker audio stream. Classically, an SD system clusters segments of speech belonging to an individual speaker's identity. Recent years have seen substantial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Nikhil Raghav

We present a novel approach to Speaker Diarization (SD) by leveraging text-based methods focused on Sentence-level Speaker Change Detection within dialogues. Unlike audio-based SD systems, which are often challenged by audio quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Peilin Wu , Jinho D. Choi

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

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

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization in Bangla remain challenging due to long form recordings, diverse acoustic conditions, and significant speaker variability. This work addresses these two core tasks in Bangla spoken…

In this paper, we propose TitaNet, a novel neural network architecture for extracting speaker representations. We employ 1D depth-wise separable convolutions with Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) layers with global context followed by channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Taejin Park , Boris Ginsburg