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Recently, we proposed a novel speaker diarization method called End-to-End-Neural-Diarization-vector clustering (EEND-vector clustering) that integrates clustering-based and end-to-end neural network-based diarization approaches into one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

This paper provides a detailed description of the Hitachi-JHU system that was submitted to the Third DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge. The system outputs the ensemble results of the five subsystems: two x-vector-based subsystems, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Shota Horiguchi , Nelson Yalta , Paola Garcia , Yuki Takashima , Yawen Xue , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Sanjeev Khudanpur

For many years, i-vector based audio embedding techniques were the dominant approach for speaker verification and speaker diarization applications. However, mirroring the rise of deep learning in various domains, neural network based audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Quan Wang , Carlton Downey , Li Wan , Philip Andrew Mansfield , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

This paper describes the TSUP team's submission to the ISCSLP 2022 conversational short-phrase speaker diarization (CSSD) challenge which particularly focuses on short-phrase conversations with a new evaluation metric called conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bowen Pang , Huan Zhao , Gaosheng Zhang , Xiaoyue Yang , Yang Sun , Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

This paper introduces the third DIHARD challenge, the third in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Neville Ryant , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

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

We address the problem of effectively handling overlapping speech in a diarization system. First, we detail a neural Long Short-Term Memory-based architecture for overlap detection. Secondly, detected overlap regions are exploited in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Latané Bullock , Hervé Bredin , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera

In speaker diarization, traditional clustering-based methods remain widely used in real-world applications. However, these methods struggle with the complex distribution of speaker embeddings and overlapping speech segments. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhaoyang Li , Jie Wang , XiaoXiao Li , Wangjie Li , Longjie Luo , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Speaker segmentation consists in partitioning a conversation between one or more speakers into speaker turns. Usually addressed as the late combination of three sub-tasks (voice activity detection, speaker change detection, and overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Hervé Bredin , Antoine Laurent

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

Target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) has recently shown promising results for speaker diarization on highly overlapped speech. However, the original model requires a fixed (and known) number of speakers, which limits its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Maokui He , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Jun Du , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

This paper describes the system developed by the XMUSPEECH team for the Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Challenge (M2MeT). For the speaker diarization task, we propose a multi-channel speaker diarization system that obtains…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li1 , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Lin Li1 , Qingyang Hong , Feng Tong

This paper describes the Microsoft speaker diarization system for monaural multi-talker recordings in the wild, evaluated at the diarization track of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge(VoxSRC) 2020. We will first explain our system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Zhuo Chen , Tianyan Zhou , Takuya Yoshioka , Sanyuan Chen , Yong Zhao , Gang Liu , Yu Wu , Jian Wu , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

This paper describes a method for overlap-aware speaker diarization. Given an overlap detector and a speaker embedding extractor, our method performs spectral clustering of segments informed by the output of the overlap detector. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

We propose two improvements to target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD), the core component in our proposed speaker diarization system that was submitted to the 2022 Multi-Channel Multi-Party Meeting Transcription (M2MeT) challenge.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Maokui He , Xiang Lv , Weilin Zhou , JingJing Yin , Xiaoqi Zhang , Yuxuan Wang , Shutong Niu , Yuhang Cao , Heng Lu , Jun Du , Chin-Hui Lee

This paper describes the winning systems developed by the BUT team for the four tracks of the Second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge. For tracks 1 and 2 the systems were mainly based on performing agglomerative hierarchical clustering…

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 describes the Royalflush speaker diarization system submitted to the Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Challenge(M2MeT). Our system comprises speech enhancement, overlapped speech detection, speaker embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

This paper details our speaker diarization system designed for multi-domain, multi-microphone casual conversations. The proposed diarization pipeline uses weighted prediction error (WPE)-based dereverberation as a front end, then applies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Atsunori Ogawa