English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-target Extractor and Detector for Unknown-nu…

200 papers

Diarization is a crucial component in meeting transcription systems to ease the challenges of speech enhancement and attribute the transcriptions to the correct speaker. Particularly in the presence of overlapping or noisy speech, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

The objective of this work is speaker diarisation of speech recordings 'in the wild'. The ability to determine speech segments is a crucial part of diarisation systems, accounting for a large proportion of errors. In this paper, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Youngki Kwon , Hee Soo Heo , Jaesung Huh , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

The mechanism proposed here is for real-time speaker change detection in conversations, which firstly trains a neural network text-independent speaker classifier using in-domain speaker data. Through the network, features of conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Aravind Ganapathiraju

This paper describes a speaker diarization model based on target speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) using transformers. To overcome the original TS-VAD model's drawback of being unable to handle an arbitrary number of speakers, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Dongmei Wang , Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Takuya Yoshioka , Jian 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

Speaker diarization is an essential step for processing multi-speaker audio. Although an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method achieved state-of-the-art performance, it is limited to a fixed number of speakers. In this paper, we solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Jing Shi , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker diarization remains challenging due to the need for structured speaker representations, efficient modeling, and robustness to varying conditions. We propose a performant, compact diarization framework that integrates conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

Speaker extraction aims to mimic humans' selective auditory attention by extracting a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker environment. It is common to perform the extraction in frequency-domain, and reconstruct the time-domain signal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Eng Siong Chng , Haizhou Li

We introduce a monaural neural speaker embeddings extractor that computes an embedding for each speaker present in a speech mixture. To allow for supervised training, a teacher-student approach is employed: the teacher computes the target…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

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

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

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

Speaker extraction requires a sample speech from the target speaker as the reference. However, enrolling a speaker with a long speech is not practical. We propose a speaker extraction technique, that performs in multiple stages to take full…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Meng Ge , Chenglin Xu , Longbiao Wang , Eng Siong Chng , Jianwu Dang , Haizhou Li

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

The aim of this paper is to investigate the benefit of combining both language and acoustic modelling for speaker diarization. Although conventional systems only use acoustic features, in some scenarios linguistic data contain high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Miquel India , Javier Hernando , José A. R. Fonollosa

Speaker counting is the task of estimating the number of people that are simultaneously speaking in an audio recording. For several audio processing tasks such as speaker diarization, separation, localization and tracking, knowing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Pierre-Amaury Grumiaux , Srdjan Kitic , Laurent Girin , Alexandre Guérin