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Bayesian HMM clustering of x-vector sequences (VBx) has become a widely adopted diarization baseline model in publications and challenges. It uses an HMM to model speaker turns, a generatively trained probabilistic linear discriminant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Federico Landini , Lukáš Burget , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

With the development of deep learning, many different network architectures have been explored in speaker verification. However, most network architectures rely on a single deep learning architecture, and hybrid networks combining different…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hui Yan , Zhenchun Lei , Changhong Liu , Yong Zhou

Recently, self-supervised learning (SSL) has demonstrated strong performance in speaker recognition, even if the pre-training objective is designed for speech recognition. In this paper, we study which factor leads to the success of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Zhuo Chen , Peidong Wang , Gang Liu , Jinyu Li , Jian Wu , Xiangzhan Yu , Furu Wei

In this work we revisit discriminative training of the i-vector extractor component in the standard speaker verification (SV) system. The motivation of our research lies in the robustness and stability of this large generative model, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-01 Ondrej Novotny , Oldrich Plchot , Ondrej Glembek , Lukas Burget , Pavel Matejka

Spoken language recognition (SLR) refers to the automatic process used to determine the language present in a speech sample. SLR is an important task in its own right, for example, as a tool to analyze or categorize large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Luciana Ferrer , Diego Castan , Mitchell McLaren , Aaron Lawson

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

Noisy training set usually leads to the degradation of generalization and robustness of neural networks. In this paper, we propose using a theoretically guaranteed noisy label detection framework to detect and remove noisy data for Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yikai Wang , Xinwei Sun , Yanwei Fu

The deep learning models used for speaker verification rely heavily on large amounts of data and correct labeling. However, noisy (incorrect) labels often occur, which degrades the performance of the system. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Hanhan Ma , Xiaochen Guo , Lin Li

Self-supervised learning (SSL) achieves great success in monaural speech enhancement, while the accuracy of the target speech estimation, particularly for unseen speakers, remains inadequate with existing pre-tasks. As speech signal…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yi Li , ShuangLin Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Spoofing-robust speaker verification (SASV) combines the tasks of speaker and spoof detection to authenticate speakers under adversarial settings. Many SASV systems rely on fusion of speaker and spoof cues at embedding, score or decision…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Oğuzhan Kurnaz , Jagabandhu Mishra , Tomi H. Kinnunen , Cemal Hanilçi

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) has advanced significantly, enabling models to generate vocals with accurate pitch and consistent style. As these capabilities improve, the need for reliable evaluation and optimization becomes increasingly…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xueyan Li , Yuxin Wang , Mengjie Jiang , Qingzi Zhu , Jiang Zhang , Zoey Kim , Yazhe Niu

Neural network based generative models with discriminative components are a powerful approach for semi-supervised learning. However, these techniques a) cannot account for model uncertainty in the estimation of the model's discriminative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-30 Jonathan Gordon , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) suffers from performance degradation in noisy conditions. To address this issue, we propose a novel adversarial learning framework that incorporates noise-disentanglement to establish a noise-independent…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xujiang Xing , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

The aim of this paper is to investigate the benefit of combining both language and acoustic modelling for speaker diarization. Although conventional systems only use acoustic features, in some scenarios linguistic data contain high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Miquel India , Javier Hernando , José A. R. Fonollosa

A key task for speech recognition systems is to reduce the mismatch between training and evaluation data that is often attributable to speaker differences. Speaker adaptation techniques play a vital role to reduce the mismatch. Model-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xurong Xie , Xunying Liu , Tan Lee , Lan Wang

This paper proposes a multi-task learning network with phoneme-aware and channel-wise attentive learning strategies for text-dependent Speaker Verification (SV). In the proposed structure, the frame-level multi-task learning along with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yan Liu , Zheng Li , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

We introduce a family of multitask variational methods for semi-supervised sequence labeling. Our model family consists of a latent-variable generative model and a discriminative labeler. The generative models use latent variables to define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mingda Chen , Qingming Tang , Karen Livescu , Kevin Gimpel

This paper proposes a fully explainable approach to speaker verification (SV), a task that fundamentally relies on individual speaker characteristics. The opaque use of speaker attributes in current SV systems raises concerns of trust.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xiaoliang Wu , Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Ajitha Rajan

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limited due to the scarcity of large-scale conversational data…

Neural network-based speaker recognition has achieved significant improvement in recent years. A robust speaker representation learns meaningful knowledge from both hard and easy samples in the training set to achieve good performance.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Ruijie Tao , Kong Aik Lee , Zhan Shi , Haizhou Li