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Neural network-based vocoders have recently demonstrated the powerful ability to synthesize high-quality speech. These models usually generate samples by conditioning on spectral features, such as Mel-spectrogram and fundamental frequency,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Yunchao He , Yujun Wang

In this paper, we propose TitaNet, a novel neural network architecture for extracting speaker representations. We employ 1D depth-wise separable convolutions with Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) layers with global context followed by channel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Nithin Rao Koluguri , Taejin Park , Boris Ginsburg

This paper describes our submission to the Second Clarity Enhancement Challenge (CEC2), which consists of target speech enhancement for hearing-aid (HA) devices in noisy-reverberant environments with multiple interferers such as music and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Samuele Cornell , Zhong-Qiu Wang , Yoshiki Masuyama , Shinji Watanabe , Manuel Pariente , Nobutaka Ono

We present Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. Deep Voice lays the groundwork for truly end-to-end neural speech synthesis. The system comprises five major building blocks:…

Most neural vocoders are limited to one type: either GAN or diffusion-based. While state-of-the-art models like Vocos and WaveNeXt use powerful ConvNeXt-based generators, they have only been used in GAN frameworks and have limited…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Wangzixi Zhou , Takuma Okamoto , Yamato Ohtani , Sakriani Sakti , Hisashi Kawai

In this paper, we propose a new differentiable neural network alignment mechanism for text-dependent speaker verification which uses alignment models to produce a supervector representation of an utterance. Unlike previous works with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Victoria Mingote , Antonio Miguel , Alfonso Ortega , Eduardo Lleida

The x-vector based deep neural network (DNN) embedding systems have demonstrated effectiveness for text-independent speaker verification. This paper presents a multi-task learning architecture for training the speaker embedding DNN with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-05 Lanhua You , Wu Guo , Lirong Dai , Jun Du

Multi-branch convolutional neural network architecture has raised lots of attention in speaker verification since the aggregation of multiple parallel branches can significantly improve performance. However, this design is not efficient…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yufeng Ma , Miao Zhao , Yiwei Ding , Yu Zheng , Min Liu , Minqiang Xu

When it comes to authentication in speaker verification systems, not all utterances are created equal. It is essential to estimate the quality of test utterances in order to account for varying acoustic conditions. In addition to the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Nicholas Klein , Ganesh Sivaraman , Elie Khoury

In this paper, we provide a large audio-visual speaker recognition dataset, VoxBlink2, which includes approximately 10M utterances with videos from 110K+ speakers in the wild. This dataset represents a significant expansion over the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Fulin Zhang , Yingying Gao , Shilei Zhang , Ming Li

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

Speaker verification is an established yet challenging task in speech processing and a very vibrant research area. Recent speaker verification (SV) systems rely on deep neural networks to extract high-level embeddings which are able to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Fei Tao , Gokhan Tur

Complex-valued processing has brought deep learning-based speech enhancement and signal extraction to a new level. Typically, the process is based on a time-frequency (TF) mask which is applied to a noisy spectrogram, while complex masks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Hendrik Schröter , Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Tobias Rosenkranz , Andreas Maier

Short-utterance speaker verification remains challenging due to limited speaker-discriminative cues in short speech segments. While existing methods focus on enhancing speaker encoders, the embedding learning strategy still forces a single…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Youngmoon Jung , Joon-Young Yang , Ju-ho Kim , Jaeyoung Roh , Chang Woo Han , Hoon-Young Cho

The x-vector architecture has recently achieved state-of-the-art results on the speaker verification task. This architecture incorporates a central layer, referred to as temporal pooling, which stacks statistical parameters of the acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mickael Rouvier , Pierre-Michel Bousquet , Jarod Duret

The deep learning models used for speaker verification rely heavily on large amounts of data and correct labeling. However, noisy (incorrect) labels often occur, which degrades the performance of the system. In this paper, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Hanhan Ma , Xiaochen Guo , Lin Li

This paper describes the ByteDance speaker diarization system for the fourth track of the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 (VoxSRC-21). The VoxSRC-21 provides both the dev set and test set of VoxConverse for use in validation and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Keke Wang , Xudong Mao , Hao Wu , Chen Ding , Chuxiang Shang , Rui Xia , Yuxuan Wang

We present improvements to speaker diarization in the two-stage end-to-end neural diarization with vector clustering (EEND-VC) framework. The first stage employs a Conformer-based EEND model with WavLM features to infer frame-level speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Petr Pálka , Jiangyu Han , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara , Lukáš Burget

In this paper, we propose an effective training strategy to ex-tract robust speaker representations from a speech signal. Oneof the key challenges in speaker recognition tasks is to learnlatent representations or embeddings containing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

In this paper, we conduct a cross-dataset study on parametric and non-parametric raw-waveform based speaker embeddings through speaker verification experiments. In general, we observe a more significant performance degradation of these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Ge Zhu , Frank Cwitkowitz , Zhiyao Duan