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Due to the high performance of multi-channel speech processing, we can use the outputs from a multi-channel model as teacher labels when training a single-channel model with knowledge distillation. To the contrary, it is also known that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia

The DIarization and Speech Processing for LAnguage understanding in Conversational Environments - Medical (DISPLACE-M) challenge introduces a conversational AI benchmark for understanding goal-oriented, real-world medical dialogues. The…

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

Recent diarization technologies can be categorized into two approaches, i.e., clustering and end-to-end neural approaches, which have different pros and cons. The clustering-based approaches assign speaker labels to speech regions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

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

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

Neural speaker diarization is widely used for overlap-aware speaker diarization, but it requires large multi-speaker datasets for training. To meet this data requirement, large datasets are often constructed by combining multiple corpora,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Shota Horiguchi , Naohiro Tawara , Takanori Ashihara , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix

Speaker diarization for real-life scenarios is an extremely challenging problem. Widely used clustering-based diarization approaches perform rather poorly in such conditions, mainly due to the limited ability to handle overlapping speech.…

In this paper, we present the submitted system for the second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKULENOVO team. Our diarization system includes multiple modules, namely voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Qingjian Lin , Weicheng Cai , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jun Zhang , Ming Li

In the field of speaker diarization, the development of technology is constrained by two problems: insufficient data resources and poor generalization ability of deep learning models. To address these two problems, firstly, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Shilong Wu

A robust multichannel speaker diarization and separation system is proposed by exploiting the spatio-temporal activity of the speakers. The system is realized in a hybrid architecture that combines the array signal processing units and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Yicheng Hsu , Ssuhan Chen , Mingsian R. Bai

This paper introduces the second DIHARD challenge, the second in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Neville Ryant , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Alejandrina Cristia , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

We consider the problem of speaker diarization, the problem of segmenting an audio recording of a meeting into temporal segments corresponding to individual speakers. The problem is rendered particularly difficult by the fact that we are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-13 Emily B. Fox , Erik B. Sudderth , Michael I. Jordan , Alan S. Willsky

This paper proposes a serialized multi-layer multi-head attention for neural speaker embedding in text-independent speaker verification. In prior works, frame-level features from one layer are aggregated to form an utterance-level…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hongning Zhu , Kong Aik Lee , Haizhou Li

Speech foundation models, trained on vast datasets, have opened unique opportunities in addressing challenging low-resource speech understanding, such as child speech. In this work, we explore the capabilities of speech foundation models on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Kevin Huang , Tiantian Feng , Lue Shen , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Shrikanth Narayanan

This study investigates robust speaker localization for con-tinuous speech separation and speaker diarization, where we use speaker directions to group non-contiguous segments of the same speaker. Assuming that speakers do not move and are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhong-Qiu Wang , DeLiang Wang

Speaker diarization is an important pre-processing step for many speech applications, and it aims to solve the "who spoke when" problem. Although the standard diarization systems can achieve satisfactory results in various scenarios, they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Yusuke Fujita , Paola Garcia , Yiwen Shao , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

This paper describes our initial efforts to build a large-scale speaker diarization (SD) and identification system on a recently digitized radio broadcast archive from the Netherlands which has more than 6500 audio tapes with 3000 hours of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Emre Yılmaz , Adem Derinel , Zhou Kun , Henk van den Heuvel , Niko Brummer , Haizhou Li , David A. van Leeuwen

While standard speaker diarization attempts to answer the question "who spoken when", most of relevant applications in reality are more interested in determining "who spoken what". Whether it is the conventional modularized approach or the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiling Huang , Weiran Wang , Guanlong Zhao , Hank Liao , Wei Xia , Quan Wang