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Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Target Speaker Extraction (TSE) uses a reference cue to extract the target speech from a mixture. In TSE systems relying on audio cues, the speaker embedding from the enrolled speech is crucial to performance. However, these embeddings may…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Wu , Anbin Qi , Yanzhang Xie , Xiang Xie

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

This paper introduces a novel approach to speaker-attributed ASR transcription using a neural clustering method. With a parallel processing mechanism, diarisation and ASR can be applied simultaneously, helping to prevent the accumulation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Xianrui Zheng , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Speaker embedding extractors (EEs), which map input audio to a speaker discriminant latent space, are of paramount importance in speaker diarisation. However, there are several challenges when adopting EEs for diarisation, from which we…

With the rise in multimedia content over the years, more variety is observed in the recording environments of audio. An audio processing system might benefit when it has a module to identify the acoustic domain at its front-end. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 A Kishore Kumar , Shefali Waldekar , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

This paper presents Transcribe-to-Diarize, a new approach for neural speaker diarization that uses an end-to-end (E2E) speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition (SA-ASR). The E2E SA-ASR is a joint model that was recently proposed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Naoyuki Kanda , Xiong Xiao , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

Speaker diarization is one of the critical components of computational media intelligence as it enables a character-level analysis of story portrayals and media content understanding. Automated audio-based speaker diarization of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

This paper presents a streaming extension for the Sortformer speaker diarization framework, whose key property is the arrival-time ordering of output speakers. The proposed approach employs an Arrival-Order Speaker Cache (AOSC) to store…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Ivan Medennikov , Taejin Park , Weiqing Wang , He Huang , Kunal Dhawan , Jinhan Wang , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

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

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

Text mismatch between pre-collected data, either training data or enrollment data, and the actual test data can significantly hurt text-dependent speaker verification (SV) system performance. Although this problem can be solved by carefully…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yexin Yang , Shuai Wang , Xun Gong , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

In this paper, we propose a novel neural speaker diarization system using memory-aware multi-speaker embedding with sequence-to-sequence architecture (NSD-MS2S), which integrates a memory-aware multi-speaker embedding module with a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Gaobin Yang , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Ruoyu Wang , Hang Chen , Jun Du

In traditional speaker diarization systems, a well-trained speaker model is a key component to extract representations from consecutive and partially overlapping segments in a long speech session. To be more consistent with the back-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yu-Huai Peng , Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Tuan Huang , Hsin-Min Wang

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

Speaker segmentation consists in partitioning a conversation between one or more speakers into speaker turns. Usually addressed as the late combination of three sub-tasks (voice activity detection, speaker change detection, and overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Hervé Bredin , Antoine Laurent

Most neural speaker diarization systems rely on sufficient manual training data labels, which are hard to collect under real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a semi-supervised speaker diarization system to utilize large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Shilong Wu , Jun Du , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Hang Chen , Haitao Tang , Chin-Hui Lee

Speaker diarization systems often struggle with high intrinsic intra-speaker variability, such as shifts in emotion, health, or content. This can cause segments from the same speaker to be misclassified as different individuals, for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Miseul Kim , Soo Jin Park , Kyungguen Byun , Hyeon-Kyeong Shin , Sunkuk Moon , Shuhua Zhang , Erik Visser

Speaker recognition deals with recognizing speakers by their speech. Most speaker recognition systems are built upon two stages, the first stage extracts low dimensional correlation embeddings from speech, and the second performs the…