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Recently, the speaker clustering model based on aggregation hierarchy cluster (AHC) is a common method to solve two main problems: no preset category number clustering and fix category number clustering. In general, model takes features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Chen Feng , Jianzong Wang , Tongxu Li , Junqing Peng , Jing Xiao

In the task of speaker diarization, the number of small-scale meetings accounts for a large proportion. When microphone arrays are employed as a recording device, its spatial information is usually ignored by most researchers. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yuxuan Du , Ruohua Zhou

In many real-world scenarios, such as meetings, multiple speakers are present with an unknown number of participants, and their utterances often overlap. We address these multi-speaker challenges by a novel attention-based encoder-decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yosuke Kashiwagi , Hayato Futami , Emiru Tsunoo , Siddhant Arora , Shinji Watanabe

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

Speaker diarization remains challenging due to the need for structured speaker representations, efficient modeling, and robustness to varying conditions. We propose a performant, compact diarization framework that integrates conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

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

Existing speaker diarization systems typically rely on large amounts of manually annotated data, which is labor-intensive and difficult to obtain, especially in real-world scenarios. Additionally, language-specific constraints in these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Phat Lam , Lam Pham , Truong Nguyen , Dat Ngo , Thinh Pham , Tin Nguyen , Loi Khanh Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

In speaker diarisation, speaker embedding extraction models often suffer from the mismatch between their training loss functions and the speaker clustering method. In this paper, we propose the method of spectral clustering-aware learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Evonne P. C. Lee , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Speaker diarization relies on the assumption that speech segments corresponding to a particular speaker are concentrated in a specific region of the speaker space; a region which represents that speaker's identity. These identities are not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker embeddings (x-vectors) extracted from very short segments of speech have recently been shown to give competitive performance in speaker diarization. We generalize this recipe by extracting from each speech segment, in parallel with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Anna Silnova , Niko Brümmer , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Lukáš Burget

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

The clustering algorithm plays a crucial role in speaker diarization systems. However, traditional clustering algorithms suffer from the complex distribution of speaker embeddings and lack of digging potential relationships between speakers…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Jie Wang , Zhicong Chen , Haodong Zhou , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

The goal of this paper is to adapt speaker embeddings for solving the problem of speaker diarisation. The quality of speaker embeddings is paramount to the performance of speaker diarisation systems. Despite this, prior works in the field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Youngki Kwon , Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Attractor-based end-to-end diarization is achieving comparable accuracy to the carefully tuned conventional clustering-based methods on challenging datasets. However, the main drawback is that it cannot deal with the case where the number…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Yawen Xue , Yuki Takashima , Yohei Kawaguchi

Speaker diarization is a task to label audio or video recordings with classes that correspond to speaker identity, or in short, a task to identify "who spoke when". In the early years, speaker diarization algorithms were developed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tae Jin Park , Naoyuki Kanda , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe , Shrikanth Narayanan

Deep clustering is a deep neural network-based speech separation algorithm that first trains the mixed component of signals with high-dimensional embeddings, and then uses a clustering algorithm to separate each mixture of sources. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Soyeon Choe , Soo-Whan Chung , Youna Ji , Hong-Goo Kang

In this paper, we address the problem of speaker recognition in challenging acoustic conditions using a novel method to extract robust speaker-discriminative speech representations. We adopt a recently proposed unsupervised adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Raghuveer Peri , Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recent speaker diarisation systems often convert variable length speech segments into fixed-length vector representations for speaker clustering, which are known as speaker embeddings. In this paper, the content-aware speaker embeddings…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 G. Sun , D. Liu , C. Zhang , P. C. Woodland