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Recent speaker verification (SV) systems have shown a trend toward adopting deeper speaker embedding extractors. Although deeper and larger neural networks can significantly improve performance, their substantial memory requirements hinder…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Bei Liu , Yanmin Qian

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

In this paper, we propose self-supervised speaker representation learning strategies, which comprise of a bootstrap equilibrium speaker representation learning in the front-end and an uncertainty-aware probabilistic speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Dongjune Lee , Jihwan Kim , Nam Soo Kim

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

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

This paper proposes a novel formulation of prototypical loss with mixup for speaker verification. Mixup is a simple yet efficient data augmentation technique that fabricates a weighted combination of random data point and label pairs for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Xin Zhang , Minho Jin , Roger Cheng , Ruirui Li , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke

This work presents a novel framework based on feed-forward neural network for text-independent speaker classification and verification, two related systems of speaker recognition. With optimized features and model training, it achieves 100%…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Ram Sundaram , Aravind Ganapathiraju

An increasing number of people in the world today speak a mixed-language as a result of being multilingual. However, building a speech recognition system for code-switching remains difficult due to the availability of limited resources and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Genta Indra Winata , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Zhaojiang Lin , Zihan Liu , Peng Xu , Pascale Fung

The success of deep learning-based speaker verification systems is largely attributed to access to large-scale and diverse speaker identity data. However, collecting data from more identities is expensive, challenging, and often limited by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Tianchi Liu , Ruijie Tao , Qiongqiong Wang , Yidi Jiang , Hardik B. Sailor , Ke Zhang , Jingru Lin , Haizhou Li

Recent advancements in Deep and Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have led to substantial improvements in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) performance, reaching unprecedented levels. However, obtaining sufficient amounts of accurately labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bulat Khaertdinov , Pedro Jeuris , Annanda Sousa , Enrique Hortal

Recently, Transformer-based architectures have been explored for speaker embedding extraction. Although the Transformer employs the self-attention mechanism to efficiently model the global interaction between token embeddings, it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Mufan Sang , Yong Zhao , Gang Liu , John H. L. Hansen , Jian Wu

The adoption of advanced deep learning architectures in stuttering detection (SD) tasks is challenging due to the limited size of the available datasets. To this end, this work introduces the application of speech embeddings extracted from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md Sahidullah , Fabrice Hirsch , Slim Ouni

In the field of speaker verification, session or channel variability poses a significant challenge. While many contemporary methods aim to disentangle session information from speaker embeddings, we introduce a novel approach using an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Hee-Soo Heo , KiHyun Nam , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Minjae Lee , You Jin Kim , Joon Son Chung

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) models utilize additional cues, such as speaker embeddings like d-vectors, to remove background noise and interfering speech in real-time and thus improve the speech quality of online video conferencing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Sefik Emre Eskimez , Takuya Yoshioka , Huaming Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Zhuo Chen , Xuedong Huang

Performance degradation caused by language mismatch is a common problem when applying a speaker verification system on speech data in different languages. This paper proposes a domain transfer network, named EDITnet, to alleviate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Jingyu Li , Wei Liu , Tan Lee

We propose SelfVC, a training strategy to iteratively improve a voice conversion model with self-synthesized examples. Previous efforts on voice conversion focus on factorizing speech into explicitly disentangled representations that…

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based methods were proposed for extracting a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from speech signals. Although the deep learning-based embedding extraction methods have shown good performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Woo Hyun Kang , Jahangir Alam , Abderrahim Fathan

In this work, we investigate the use of embeddings for speaker-adaptive training of DNNs (DNN-SAT) focusing on a small amount of adaptation data per speaker. DNN-SAT can be viewed as learning a mapping from each embedding to transformation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Joanna Rownicka , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

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