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Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a long-standing goal for speech processing, since it utilizes large-scale unlabeled data and avoids extensive human labeling. Recent years witness great successes in applying self-supervised learning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Zhengyang Chen , Zhuo Chen , Shujie Liu , Jian Wu , Yao Qian , Furu Wei , Jinyu Li , Xiangzhan Yu

This paper presents a new method for training sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition and translation tasks. Instead of the traditional approach of training models on short segments containing only lowercase or partial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Travis Bartley , Hainan Xu , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg , Georg Kucsko

In this paper, a hierarchical attention network to generate utterance-level embeddings (H-vectors) for speaker identification is proposed. Since different parts of an utterance may have different contributions to speaker identities, the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Speaker embeddings are promising identity-related features that can enhance the identity assignment performance of a tracking system by leveraging its spatial predictions, i.e, by performing identity reassignment. Common speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Taous Iatariene , Alexandre Guérin , Romain Serizel

Synthesizing the voices of unseen speakers remains a persisting challenge in multi-speaker text-to-speech (TTS). Existing methods model speaker characteristics through speaker conditioning during training, leading to increased model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Shreeram Suresh Chandra , Junchen Lu , Berrak Sisman

Short-utterance speaker verification remains challenging due to limited speaker-discriminative cues in short speech segments. While existing methods focus on enhancing speaker encoders, the embedding learning strategy still forces a single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Youngmoon Jung , Joon-Young Yang , Ju-ho Kim , Jaeyoung Roh , Chang Woo Han , Hoon-Young Cho

Although few-shot learning has attracted much attention from the fields of image and audio classification, few efforts have been made on few-shot speaker identification. In the task of few-shot learning, overfitting is a tough problem…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Yanxiong Li , Wucheng Wang , Hao Chen , Wenchang Cao , Wei Li , Qianhua He

Utterance classification performance in low-resource dialogue systems is constrained by an inevitably high degree of data imbalance in class labels. We present a new end-to-end pairwise learning framework that is designed specifically to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Vishal Sunder , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Recent research in speaker verification has increasingly focused on achieving robust and reliable recognition under challenging channel conditions and noisy environments. Identifying speakers in radio communications is particularly…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Wenhao Yang , Jianguo Wei , Wenhuan Lu , Lei Li , Xugang Lu

The recent advances in deep learning are mostly driven by availability of large amount of training data. However, availability of such data is not always possible for specific tasks such as speaker recognition where collection of large…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Prashant Anand , Ajeet Kumar Singh , Siddharth Srivastava , Brejesh Lall

Most speaker verification tasks are studied as an open-set evaluation scenario considering the real-world condition. Thus, the generalization power to unseen speakers is of paramount important to the performance of the speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ju-ho Kim , Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ha-Jin Yu

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

We propose an approach for training speaker identification models in a weakly supervised manner. We concentrate on the setting where the training data consists of a set of audio recordings and the speaker annotation is provided only at the…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Martin Karu , Tanel Alumäe

Neural speaker embeddings trained using classification objectives have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in multiple applications. Typically, such embeddings are trained on an out-of-domain corpus on a single task e.g., speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Manoj Kumar , Tae Jin-Park , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

I-vector based text-independent speaker verification (SV) systems often have poor performance with short utterances, as the biased phonetic distribution in a short utterance makes the extracted i-vector unreliable. This paper proposes an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-03 Jiacen Zhang , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda

We present an approach to tackle the speaker recognition problem using Triplet Neural Networks. Currently, the $i$-vector representation with probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) is the most commonly used technique to solve…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Kin Wai Cheuk , Balamurali B. T. , Gemma Roig , Dorien Herremans

The objective of this work is to develop a speaker recognition model to be used in diverse scenarios. We hypothesise that two components should be adequately configured to build such a model. First, adequate architecture would be required.…

Speaker verification (SV) utilizing features obtained from models pre-trained via self-supervised learning has recently demonstrated impressive performances. However, these pre-trained models (PTMs) usually have a temporal resolution of 20…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Jisoo Myoung , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

Recently, there has been growing interest in multi-speaker speech recognition, where the utterances of multiple speakers are recognized from their mixture. Promising techniques have been proposed for this task, but earlier works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Hiroshi Seki , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux , John R. Hershey