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In this paper, we refine and validate our method for training speaker embedding extractors using weak annotations. More specifically, we use only the audio stream of the source VoxCeleb videos and the names of the celebrities without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Sara Barahona , Ladislav Mošner , Themos Stafylakis , Oldřich Plchot , Junyi Peng , Lukáš Burget , Jan Černocký

While deep learning models have made significant advances in supervised classification problems, the application of these models for out-of-set verification tasks like speaker recognition has been limited to deriving feature embeddings. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Shreyas Ramoji , Prashant Krishnan , Sriram Ganapathy

End-to-end learning models have demonstrated a remarkable capability in performing speech segregation. Despite their wide-scope of real-world applications, little is known about the mechanisms they employ to group and consequently segregate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Rahil Parikh , Gaspar Rochette , Carol Espy-Wilson , Shihab Shamma

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Speaker diarization has been mainly developed based on the clustering of speaker embeddings. However, the clustering-based approach has two major problems; i.e., (i) it is not optimized to minimize diarization errors directly, and (ii) it…

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

Speaker verification aims to verify whether an input speech corresponds to the claimed speaker, and conventionally, this kind of system is deployed based on single-stream scenario, wherein the feature extractor operates in full frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Yao , Shen Chen , Jiamin Cui , Yaolin Lou

In this paper we propose and analyse a large margin fine-tuning strategy and a quality-aware score calibration in text-independent speaker verification. Large margin fine-tuning is a secondary training stage for DNN based speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

An attacker may use a variety of techniques to fool an automatic speaker verification system into accepting them as a genuine user. Anti-spoofing methods meanwhile aim to make the system robust against such attacks. The ASVspoof 2017…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-01 Cheng-I Lai , Alberto Abad , Korin Richmond , Junichi Yamagishi , Najim Dehak , Simon King

Speaker recognition performance has been greatly improved with the emergence of deep learning. Deep neural networks show the capacity to effectively deal with impacts of noise and reverberation, making them attractive to far-field speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Wenda Chen , Jonathan Huang , Tobias Bocklet

This paper proposes an improved approach for open-set speaker identification based on pretrained speaker foundation models. Building upon the previous Speaker Reciprocal Points Learning framework (V1), we first introduce an enhanced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Zhiyong Chen , Shuhang Wu , Yingjie Duan , Xinkang Xu , Xinhui Hu

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end ASD workflow where feature learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Juan Leon Alcazar , Moritz Cordes , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem

We present Deep Speaker, a neural speaker embedding system that maps utterances to a hypersphere where speaker similarity is measured by cosine similarity. The embeddings generated by Deep Speaker can be used for many tasks, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Chao Li , Xiaokong Ma , Bing Jiang , Xiangang Li , Xuewei Zhang , Xiao Liu , Ying Cao , Ajay Kannan , Zhenyao Zhu

In this paper, we present a novel modeling method for single-channel multi-talker overlapped automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Fully neural network based end-to-end models have dramatically improved the performance of multi-taker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ryo Masumura , Daiki Okamura , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Shota Orihashi

This paper describes the NPU system submitted to Spoofing Aware Speaker Verification Challenge 2022. We particularly focus on the \textit{backend ensemble} for speaker verification and spoofing countermeasure from three aspects. Firstly,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Li Zhang , Yue Li , Huan Zhao , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

This work presents a novel framework based on feed-forward neural network for text-independent speaker classification and verification, two related systems of speaker recognition. With optimized features and model training, it achieves 100%…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Ram Sundaram , Aravind Ganapathiraju

We propose Text-Aligned Speech Tokens with Multiple Layer-Aggregation (TASLA), which is a text-aligned speech tokenization framework that aims to address the problem that under a low-frame-rate and text-aligned regime, single-source speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Ming-Hao Hsu , Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Hung-yi Lee , Zhizheng Wu

In this paper, we explore the encoding/pooling layer and loss function in the end-to-end speaker and language recognition system. First, a unified and interpretable end-to-end system for both speaker and language recognition is developed.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-17 Weicheng Cai , Jinkun Chen , Ming Li

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

An utterance-level speaker embedding is typically obtained by aggregating a sequence of frame-level representations. However, in real-world scenarios, individual frames encode not only speaker-relevant information but also various nuisance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Junjie Li , Kong Aik Lee