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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

State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

Deep subspace clustering has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Almost all the existing works are required to load the whole training data into one batch for learning the self-expressive coefficients in the framework of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yanming Li , Changsheng Li , Shiye Wang , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

End-to-end neural diarization (EEND) models offer significant improvements over traditional embedding-based Speaker Diarization (SD) approaches but falls short on generalizing to long-form audio with large number of speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Xiang Li , Vivek Govindan , Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan

Deep clustering (DC) and utterance-level permutation invariant training (uPIT) have been demonstrated promising for speaker-independent speech separation. DC is usually formulated as two-step processes: embedding learning and embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Cunhang Fan , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen

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

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Grigor Kirakosyan , Davit Karamyan

Speaker embedding has been a fundamental feature for speaker-related tasks such as verification, clustering, and diarization. Traditionally, speaker embeddings are represented as fixed vectors in high-dimensional space. This could lead to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Siqi Zheng , Hongbin Suo , Qian Chen

Recent efforts have been made on acoustic scene classification in the audio signal processing community. In contrast, few studies have been conducted on acoustic scene clustering, which is a newly emerging problem. Acoustic scene clustering…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Yanxiong Li , Mingle Liu , Wucheng Wang , Yuhan Zhang , Qianhua He

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

Conventional singing voice conversion (SVC) methods often suffer from operating in high-resolution audio owing to a high dimensionality of data. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical representation learning that enables the learning of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

Speaker embeddings (x-vectors) extracted from very short segments of speech have recently been shown to give competitive performance in speaker diarization. We generalize this recipe by extracting from each speech segment, in parallel with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Anna Silnova , Niko Brümmer , Johan Rohdin , Themos Stafylakis , Lukáš Burget

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

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

Although automatic emotion recognition (AER) has recently drawn significant research interest, most current AER studies use manually segmented utterances, which are usually unavailable for dialogue systems. This paper proposes integrating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Many modern systems for speaker diarization, such as the recently-developed VBx approach, rely on clustering of DNN speaker embeddings followed by resegmentation. Two problems with this approach are that the DNN is not directly optimized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Kiran Karra , Alan McCree

State-of-the-art Deep Learning systems for speaker verification are commonly based on speaker embedding extractors. These architectures are usually composed of a feature extractor front-end together with a pooling layer to encode…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Federico Costa , Miquel India , Javier Hernando

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

Speaker diarization (SD) is typically used with an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to ascribe speaker labels to recognized words. The conventional approach reconciles outputs from independently optimized ASR and SD systems, where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-20 Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Xiang Li

We address talker-independent monaural speaker separation from the perspectives of deep learning and computational auditory scene analysis (CASA). Specifically, we decompose the multi-speaker separation task into the stages of simultaneous…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yuzhou Liu , DeLiang Wang