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This paper presents the system developed to address the MISP 2025 Challenge. For the diarization system, we proposed a hybrid approach combining a WavLM end-to-end segmentation method with a traditional multi-module clustering technique to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shangkun Huang , Yuxuan Du , Jingwen Yang , Dejun Zhang , Xupeng Jia , Jing Deng , Jintao Kang , Rong Zheng

Overlapped speech is notoriously problematic for speaker diarization systems. Consequently, the use of speech separation has recently been proposed to improve their performance. Although promising, speech separation models struggle with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Elio Gruttadauria , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid

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 conduct a comparative study on speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in the multi-party meeting scenario, a topic with increasing attention in meeting rich transcription. Specifically, three approaches…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Fan Yu , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Yuxiao Lin , Lei Xie

Transcribing meetings containing overlapped speech with only a single distant microphone (SDM) has been one of the most challenging problems for automatic speech recognition (ASR). While various approaches have been proposed, all previous…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Naoyuki Kanda , Guoli Ye , Yu Wu , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

In this research paper, we delve into the topics of Speech Diarization and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Speech diarization involves the separation of individual speakers within an audio stream. By employing the ASR transcript, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aayush Kumar Sharma , Vineet Bhavikatti , Amogh Nidawani , Siddappaji , Sanath P , Dr Geetishree Mishra

Speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization (SD) models have traditionally been trained separately to produce rich conversation transcripts with speaker labels. Recent advances have shown that joint ASR and SD models can learn to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Huanru Henry Mao , Shuyang Li , Julian McAuley , Garrison Cottrell

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of multi-channel multi-speaker overlapped speech remains one of the most challenging tasks to the speech community. In this paper, we look into this challenge by utilizing the location information of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the transcription of speech conversations with natural speaker overlap, from single channel speech recordings. The proposed model is a combination of a speaker diarization system and a hybrid…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Sriram Ganapathy

Recently, end-to-end models have become a popular approach as an alternative to traditional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition (ASR). The multi-speaker speech separation and recognition task is a central task in cocktail party…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Xuankai Chang , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu , Shinji Watanabe

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of overlapped speech remains a highly challenging task to date. To this end, multi-channel microphone array data are widely used in state-of-the-art ASR systems. Motivated by the invariance of visual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Jianwei Yu , Bo Wu , Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Lianwu Chen , Yong Xu. Meng Yu , Dan Su , Dong Yu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

We investigate the effect of speaker localization on the performance of speech recognition systems in a multispeaker, multichannel environment. Given the speaker location information, speech separation is performed in three stages. In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Sunit Sivasankaran , Emmaneul Vincent , Dominique Fohr

Source separation can improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) under multi-party meeting scenarios by extracting single-speaker signals from overlapped speech. Despite the success of self-supervised learning models in single-channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yuang Li , Xianrui Zheng , Philip C. Woodland

End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR) in multi-party meeting scenarios is one of the most valuable and challenging ASR task. It was shown that single-channel frame-level diarization with serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Mohan Shi , Jie Zhang , Zhihao Du , Fan Yu , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Li-Rong Dai

Since diarization and source separation of meeting data are closely related tasks, we here propose an approach to perform the two objectives jointly. It builds upon the target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) diarization approach,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Christoph Boeddeker , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Gordon Wichern , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Jonathan Le Roux

This paper presents a unified multi-speaker encoder (UME), a novel architecture that jointly learns representations for speaker diarization (SD), speech separation (SS), and multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks using a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Muhammad Shakeel , Yui Sudo , Yifan Peng , Chyi-Jiunn Lin , Shinji Watanabe

The evolving speech processing landscape is increasingly focused on complex scenarios like meetings or cocktail parties with multiple simultaneous speakers and far-field conditions. Existing methodologies for addressing these challenges…

Neural speech separation has made remarkable progress and its integration with automatic speech recognition (ASR) is an important direction towards realizing multi-speaker ASR. This work provides an insightful investigation of speech…

The continuous speech separation (CSS) is a task to separate the speech sources from a long, partially overlapped recording, which involves a varying number of speakers. A straightforward extension of conventional utterance-level speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Chenda Li , Zhuo Chen , Yi Luo , Cong Han , Tianyan Zhou , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian