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End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez

We present a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using end-to-end deep learning. Our architecture is significantly simpler than traditional speech systems, which rely on laboriously engineered processing pipelines; these…

Neural models have become ubiquitous in automatic speech recognition systems. While neural networks are typically used as acoustic models in more complex systems, recent studies have explored end-to-end speech recognition systems based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yonatan Belinkov , James Glass

In this paper we propose a method to model speaker and session variability and able to generate likelihood ratios using neural networks in an end-to-end phrase dependent speaker verification system. As in Joint Factor Analysis, the model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Antonio Miguel , Jorge Llombart , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

The problem of automatic accent identification is important for several applications like speaker profiling and recognition as well as for improving speech recognition systems. The accented nature of speech can be primarily attributed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Aditya Siddhant , Preethi Jyothi , Sriram Ganapathy

Embedding audio signal segments into vectors with fixed dimensionality is attractive because all following processing will be easier and more efficient, for example modeling, classifying or indexing. Audio Word2Vec previously proposed was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Sung-Feng Huang , Yi-Chen Chen , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-shan Lee

In this paper, we propose a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based speaker recognition model for extracting robust speaker embeddings. The embedding can be extracted efficiently with linear activation in the embedding layer. To understand…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Suwon Shon , Hao Tang , James Glass

Many neural network speaker recognition systems model each speaker using a fixed-dimensional embedding vector. These embeddings are generally compared using either linear or 2nd-order scoring and, until recently, do not handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jason Pelecanos , Quan Wang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

This paper aims to improve the widely used deep speaker embedding x-vector model. We propose the following improvements: (1) a hybrid neural network structure using both time delay neural network (TDNN) and long short-term memory neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yun Tang , Guohong Ding , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Imagined speech is spotlighted as a new trend in the brain-machine interface due to its application as an intuitive communication tool. However, previous studies have shown low classification performance, therefore its use in real-life is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 Dong-Yeon Lee , Minji Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Learning robust speaker embeddings is a crucial step in speaker diarization. Deep neural networks can accurately capture speaker discriminative characteristics and popular deep embeddings such as x-vectors are nowadays a fundamental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Nauman Dawalatabad , Mirco Ravanelli , François Grondin , Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Hwidong Na

Separating different speaker properties from a multi-speaker environment is challenging. Instead of separating a two-speaker signal in signal space like speech source separation, a speaker embedding de-mixing approach is proposed. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yanpei Shi , Thomas Hain

End-to-end models are fast replacing the conventional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition. Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence model, based on self-attention popularly used in machine translation tasks, has given promising results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Vishwas M. Shetty , Metilda Sagaya Mary N J , S. Umesh

The objective of this paper is speaker recognition "in the wild"-where utterances may be of variable length and also contain irrelevant signals. Crucial elements in the design of deep networks for this task are the type of trunk (frame…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-21 Weidi Xie , Arsha Nagrani , Joon Son Chung , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper, we propose TitaNet, a novel neural network architecture for extracting speaker representations. We employ 1D depth-wise separable convolutions with Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) layers with global context followed by channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Taejin Park , Boris Ginsburg

Automated speaker identification (SID) is a crucial step for the personalization of a wide range of speech-enabled services. Typical SID systems use a symmetric enrollment-verification framework with a single model to derive embeddings both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Chenyang Gao , Brecht Desplanques , Chelsea J. -T. Ju , Aman Chadha , Andreas Stolcke

Speaker embeddings represent a means to extract representative vectorial representations from a speech signal such that the representation pertains to the speaker identity alone. The embeddings are commonly used to classify and discriminate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Adriana Stan

Speaker identification systems in a real-world scenario are tasked to identify a speaker amongst a set of enrolled speakers given just a few samples for each enrolled speaker. This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of meta-learning and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Ashutosh Chaubey , Sparsh Sinha , Susmita Ghose

Speaker identification typically involves three stages. First, a front-end speaker embedding model is trained to embed utterance and speaker profiles. Second, a scoring function is applied between a runtime utterance and each speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Zhenning Tan , Yuguang Yang , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke

Speaker embedding is an important front-end module to explore discriminative speaker features for many speech applications where speaker information is needed. Current SOTA backbone networks for speaker embedding are designed to aggregate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Ruiteng Zhang , Jianguo Wei , Xugang Lu , Wenhuan Lu , Di Jin , Junhai Xu , Lin Zhang , Yantao Ji , Jianwu Dang