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In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually hand-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Pawel Cyrta , Tomasz Trzciński , Wojciech Stokowiec

Speech enhancement using neural networks is recently receiving large attention in research and being integrated in commercial devices and applications. In this work, we investigate data augmentation techniques for supervised deep…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

Deep speaker embedding has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition tasks. However, one potential issue with this approach is that the speaker vectors derived from deep embedding models tend to be non-Gaussian for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yunqi Cai , Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Target speech extraction is a technique to extract the target speaker's voice from mixture signals using a pre-recorded enrollment utterance that characterize the voice characteristics of the target speaker. One major difficulty of target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Keisuke Kinoshita , Takafumi Moriya , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura

Deep clustering is a deep neural network-based speech separation algorithm that first trains the mixed component of signals with high-dimensional embeddings, and then uses a clustering algorithm to separate each mixture of sources. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-16 Soyeon Choe , Soo-Whan Chung , Youna Ji , Hong-Goo Kang

Learning robust speaker representations under noisy conditions presents significant challenges, which requires careful handling of both discriminative and noise-invariant properties. In this work, we proposed an anchor-based stage-wise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bin Gu , Lipeng Dai , Huipeng Du , Haitao Zhao , Jibo Wei

Speaker recognition is a task of identifying persons from their voices. Recently, deep learning has dramatically revolutionized speaker recognition. However, there is lack of comprehensive reviews on the exciting progress. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Predicting the altered acoustic frames is an effective way of self-supervised learning for speech representation. However, it is challenging to prevent the pretrained model from overfitting. In this paper, we proposed to introduce two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Jian Luo , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Jing Xiao

Although supervised deep learning has revolutionized speech and audio processing, it has necessitated the building of specialist models for individual tasks and application scenarios. It is likewise difficult to apply this to dialects and…

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

We propose a novel regularization algorithm to train deep neural networks, in which data at training time is severely biased. Since a neural network efficiently learns data distribution, a network is likely to learn the bias information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Byungju Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Kyungsu Kim , Sungjin Kim , Junmo Kim

Self-supervised speech pre-training enables deep neural network models to capture meaningful and disentangled factors from raw waveform signals. The learned universal speech representations can then be used across numerous downstream tasks.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Heitor R. Guimarães , Arthur Pimentel , Anderson R. Avila , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Boxing Chen , Tiago H. Falk

Multi-channel speech enhancement with ad-hoc sensors has been a challenging task. Speech model guided beamforming algorithms are able to recover natural sounding speech, but the speech models tend to be oversimplified or the inference would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kaizhi Qian , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Xuesong Yang , Dinei Florencio , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Embedding words in a vector space has gained a lot of attention in recent years. While state-of-the-art methods provide efficient computation of word similarities via a low-dimensional matrix embedding, their motivation is often left…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Shihao Ji , Hyokun Yun , Pinar Yanardag , Shin Matsushima , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Robust speaker verification under noisy conditions remains an open challenge. Conventional deep learning methods learn a robust unified speaker representation space against diverse background noise and achieve significant improvement. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Bin Gu , Haitao Zhao , Jibo Wei

Under noisy environments, to achieve the robust performance of speaker recognition is still a challenging task. Motivated by the promising performance of multi-task training in a variety of image processing tasks, we explore the potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianfeng Zhou , Tao Jiang , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong , Zhe Wang , Bingyin Xia

Regularization of neural machine translation is still a significant problem, especially in low-resource settings. To mollify this problem, we propose regressing word embeddings (ReWE) as a new regularization technique in a system that is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Ehsan Zare Borzeshi , Nazanin Esmaili , Massimo Piccardi

Studies on generalization performance of machine learning algorithms under the scope of information theory suggest that compressed representations can guarantee good generalization, inspiring many compression-based regularization methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Antoine Saporta , Yifu Chen , Michael Blot , Matthieu Cord

A good supervised embedding for a specific machine learning task is only sensitive to changes in the label of interest and is invariant to other confounding factors. We leverage the concept of repeatability from measurement theory to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Jianwei Zhang , Suren Jayasuriya , Visar Berisha