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Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

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

In this study, we propose a new spectral clustering framework that can auto-tune the parameters of the clustering algorithm in the context of speaker diarization. The proposed framework uses normalized maximum eigengap (NME) values to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Tae Jin Park , Kyu J. Han , Manoj Kumar , Shrikanth Narayanan

This paper addresses spoken language identification (SLI) and speech recognition of multilingual broadcast and institutional speech, real application scenarios that have been rarely addressed in the SLI literature. Observing that in these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Martina Valente , Fabio Brugnara , Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Leonardo Badino

This paper investigates the application of the probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) to speaker diarization of telephone conversations. We introduce using a variational Bayes (VB) approach for inference under a PLDA model for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 Ahmet E. Bulut , Hakan Demir , Yusuf Ziya Isik , Hakan Erdogan

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Grigor Kirakosyan , Davit Karamyan

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

In recent years, speaker diarization has attracted widespread attention. To achieve better performance, some studies propose to diarize speech in multiple stages. Although these methods might bring additional benefits, most of them are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Jiangyu Han , Yuhang Cao , Heng Lu , Yanhua Long

Although automatic emotion recognition (AER) has recently drawn significant research interest, most current AER studies use manually segmented utterances, which are usually unavailable for dialogue systems. This paper proposes integrating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

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

We propose a modular pipeline for the single-channel separation, recognition, and diarization of meeting-style recordings and evaluate it on the Libri-CSS dataset. Using a Continuous Speech Separation (CSS) system with a TF-GridNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Majority of speech signals across different scenarios are never available with well-defined audio segments containing only a single speaker. A typical conversation between two speakers consists of segments where their voices overlap,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Siddharth S. Nijhawan , Homayoon Beigi

This report describes the speaker diarization system developed by the ABSP Laboratory team for the third DIHARD speech diarization challenge. Our primary contribution is to develop acoustic domain identification (ADI) system for speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 A Kishore Kumar , Shefali Waldekar , Goutam Saha , Md Sahidullah

Overlapping speech diarization has been traditionally treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding multiple binary labels into a single label with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

Clustering speaker embeddings is crucial in speaker diarization but hasn't received as much focus as other components. Moreover, the robustness of speaker diarization across various datasets hasn't been explored when the development and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Nikhil Raghav , Md Sahidullah

Speaker diarization, usually denoted as the ''who spoke when'' task, turns out to be particularly challenging when applied to fictional films, where many characters talk in various acoustic conditions (background music, sound effects...).…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xavier Bost , Georges Linares

This study investigates robust speaker localization for con-tinuous speech separation and speaker diarization, where we use speaker directions to group non-contiguous segments of the same speaker. Assuming that speakers do not move and are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhong-Qiu Wang , DeLiang Wang

The objective of this work is effective speaker diarisation using multi-scale speaker embeddings. Typically, there is a trade-off between the ability to recognise short speaker segments and the discriminative power of the embedding,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Youngki Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

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

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