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In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually hand-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Pawel Cyrta , Tomasz Trzciński , Wojciech Stokowiec

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

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

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

The objective of this work is to train noise-robust speaker embeddings adapted for speaker diarisation. Speaker embeddings play a crucial role in the performance of diarisation systems, but they often capture spurious information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-04 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

Recently in speaker recognition, performance degradation due to the channel domain mismatched condition has been actively addressed. However, the mismatches arising from language is yet to be sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Suwon Shon , Seongkyu Mun , Hanseok Ko

In this paper, we present a novel training method for speaker change detection models. Speaker change detection is often viewed as a binary sequence labelling problem. The main challenges with this approach are the vagueness of annotated…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Joonas Kalda , Tanel Alumäe

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (ASR) in multi-speaker environments remains a major challenge. While some approaches achieve strong performance when fine-tuned on specific domains, few systems generalize well across…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Samuele Cornell , Matthew Wiesner , Jan Černocký , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Lukáš Burget

The Speaker Diarization and Recognition (SDR) task aims to predict "who spoke when and what" within an audio clip, which is a crucial task in various real-world multi-speaker scenarios such as meeting transcription and dialogue systems.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Han Yin , Yafeng Chen , Chong Deng , Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Chao-Hong Tan , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Xiangang Li

In this paper, we present a neural spoken language diarization model that supports an unconstrained span of languages within a single framework. Our approach integrates a learnable query-based architecture grounded in multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Sangmin Lee , Woongjib Choi , Jihyun Kim , Hong-Goo Kang

In this paper, we introduce DiarizationLM, a framework to leverage large language models (LLM) to post-process the outputs from a speaker diarization system. Various goals can be achieved with the proposed framework, such as improving the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Quan Wang , Yiling Huang , Guanlong Zhao , Evan Clark , Wei Xia , Hank Liao

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 present a modular toolkit to perform joint speaker diarization and speaker identification. The toolkit can leverage on multiple models and algorithms which are defined in a configuration file. Such flexibility allows our system to work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Fabio Brugnara , Enrico Sartori , Leonardo Badino

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

Using a Teacher-Student training approach we developed a speaker embedding extraction system that outputs embeddings at frame rate. Given this high temporal resolution and the fact that the student produces sensible speaker embeddings even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

Diarization is a crucial component in meeting transcription systems to ease the challenges of speech enhancement and attribute the transcriptions to the correct speaker. Particularly in the presence of overlapping or noisy speech, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

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 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