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This work presents a novel back-end framework for speaker verification using graph attention networks. Segment-wise speaker embeddings extracted from multiple crops within an utterance are interpreted as node representations of a graph. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , Ha-Jin Yu , Joon Son Chung

Speech production is a complex phenomenon, wherein the brain orchestrates a sequence of processes involving thought processing, motor planning, and the execution of articulatory movements. However, this intricate execution of various…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh

Supervised deep-embedding methods project inputs of a domain to a representational space in which same-class instances lie near one another and different-class instances lie far apart. We propose a probabilistic method that treats…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-27 Tyler R. Scott , Karl Ridgeway , Michael C. Mozer

The a posteriori speech presence probability (SPP) is the fundamental component of noise power spectral density (PSD) estimation, which can contribute to speech enhancement and speech recognition systems. Most existing SPP estimators can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Shuai Tao , Jesper Rindom Jensen , Yang Xiang , Himavanth Reddy , Qingzheng Zhang , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Speaker recognition is a biometric modality that utilizes the speaker's speech segments to recognize the identity, determining whether the test speaker belongs to one of the enrolled speakers. In order to improve the robustness of the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Zhifeng Wang , Chunyan Zeng , Surong Duan , Hongjie Ouyang , Hongmin Xu

In this paper, a special decision surface for the weakly-supervised sound event detection (SED) and a disentangled feature (DF) for the multi-label problem in polyphonic SED are proposed. We approach SED as a multiple instance learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Liwei Lin , Xiangdong Wang , Hong Liu , Yueliang Qian

Speaker attribution is required in many real-world applications, such as meeting transcription, where speaker identity is assigned to each utterance according to speaker voice profiles. In this paper, we propose to solve the speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Jixuan Wang , Xiong Xiao , Jian Wu , Ranjani Ramamurthy , Frank Rudzicz , Michael Brudno

In this paper, we address the problem of speaker recognition in challenging acoustic conditions using a novel method to extract robust speaker-discriminative speech representations. We adopt a recently proposed unsupervised adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Raghuveer Peri , Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Supervised Semantic Differential (SSD) is a mixed quantitative-interpretive method that models how text meaning varies with continuous individual-difference variables by estimating a semantic gradient in an embedding space and interpreting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hubert Plisiecki , Maria Leniarska , Jan Piotrowski , Marcin Zajenkowski

In this work, we revisit the semi-supervised learning (SSL) problem from a new perspective of explicitly reducing empirical distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled samples. Benefited from this new perspective, we first propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Feiyu Wang , Qin Wang , Wen Li , Dong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Current synthetic speech detection (SSD) methods perform well on certain datasets but still face issues of robustness and interpretability. A possible reason is that these methods do not analyze the deficiencies of synthetic speech. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Yuxiang Zhang , Zhuo Li , Jingze Lu , Wenchao Wang , Pengyuan Zhang

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

The most widely used technology to identify the proteins present in a complex biological sample is tandem mass spectrometry, which quickly produces a large collection of spectra representative of the peptides (i.e., protein subsequences)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-06 John T. Halloran , David M. Rocke

Cross-lingual representation learning transfers knowledge from resource-rich data to resource-scarce ones to improve the semantic understanding abilities of different languages. However, previous works rely on shallow unsupervised data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Dongyang Li , Taolin Zhang , Jiali Deng , Longtao Huang , Chengyu Wang , Xiaofeng He , Hui Xue

This paper studies modulation spectrum features ($\Phi$) and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients ($\Psi$) in joint speaker diarization and identification (JSID). JSID is important as speaker diarization on its own to distinguish speakers is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Simon W. McKnight , Aidan O. T. Hogg , Vincent W. Neo , Patrick A. Naylor

The effects of speaking-style variability on automatic speaker verification were investigated using the UCLA Speaker Variability database which comprises multiple speaking styles per speaker. An x-vector/PLDA (probabilistic linear…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Amber Afshan , Jinxi Guo , Soo Jin Park , Vijay Ravi , Alan McCree , Abeer Alwan

This paper presents an improved deep embedding learning method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for text-independent speaker verification. Two improvements are proposed for x-vector embedding learning: (1) Multi-scale convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-15 Bin Gu , Wu Guo

Data-driven methods have shown tremendous progress in medical image analysis. In this context, deep learning-based supervised methods are widely popular. However, they require a large amount of training data and face issues in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ziang Xu , Jens Rittscher , Sharib Ali

End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez