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In recent years, there have been studies to further improve the end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND) systems. This letter proposes the EEND-DEMUX model, a novel framework utilizing demultiplexed speaker embeddings. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Canyeong Moon , Nam Soo Kim

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Recently, we proposed a novel speaker diarization method called End-to-End-Neural-Diarization-vector clustering (EEND-vector clustering) that integrates clustering-based and end-to-end neural network-based diarization approaches into one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Using a Teacher-Student training approach we developed a speaker embedding extraction system that outputs embeddings at frame rate. Given this high temporal resolution and the fact that the student produces sensible speaker embeddings even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Recent progress on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) has enabled overlap-aware speaker diarization with a single neural network. This paper proposes to enhance EEND by using multi-channel signals from distributed microphones. We replace…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Yohei Kawaguchi

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

In this paper, we propose a quality-aware end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization framework, which comprises three key techniques. First, our audio-visual model takes both audio and visual features as inputs, utilizing a series…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mao-Kui He , Jun Du , Shu-Tong Niu , Qing-Feng Liu , Chin-Hui Lee

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

In this paper we describe a speaker diarization system that enables localization and identification of all speakers present in a conversation or meeting. We propose a novel systematic approach to tackle several long-standing challenges in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Xianliang Wang , Hongbin Suo , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

In recent years, speaker diarization has attracted widespread attention. To achieve better performance, some studies propose to diarize speech in multiple stages. Although these methods might bring additional benefits, most of them are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Jiangyu Han , Yuhang Cao , Heng Lu , Yanhua Long

Voice activity detection is the task of detecting speech regions in a given audio stream or recording. First, we design a neural network combining trainable filters and recurrent layers to tackle voice activity detection directly from the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Marvin Lavechin , Marie-Philippe Gill , Ruben Bousbib , Hervé Bredin , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera

Recently, end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) is introduced and achieves promising results in speaker-overlapped scenarios. In EEND, speaker diarization is formulated as a multi-label prediction problem, where speaker activities are…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jiaming Wang , Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang

Attractor-based end-to-end diarization is achieving comparable accuracy to the carefully tuned conventional clustering-based methods on challenging datasets. However, the main drawback is that it cannot deal with the case where the number…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Yawen Xue , Yuki Takashima , Yohei Kawaguchi

Overlapping speech diarization is always treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding the multi-speaker labels with power set. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Ming Lei

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

In spite of the popularity of end-to-end diarization systems nowadays, modular systems comprised of voice activity detection (VAD), speaker embedding extraction plus clustering, and overlapped speech detection (OSD) plus handling still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Petr Pálka , Federico Landini , Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget

This paper presents our recent effort on end-to-end speaker-attributed automatic speech recognition, which jointly performs speaker counting, speech recognition and speaker identification for monaural multi-talker audio. Firstly, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Naoyuki Kanda , Guoli Ye , Yashesh Gaur , Xiaofei Wang , Zhong Meng , Zhuo Chen , Takuya Yoshioka