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Single-channel speech separation is a crucial task for enhancing speech recognition systems in multi-speaker environments. This paper investigates the robustness of state-of-the-art Neural Network models in scenarios where the pitch…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Bunlong Lay , Sebastian Zaczek , Kristina Tesch , Timo Gerkmann

End-to-end speaker diarization for an unknown number of speakers is addressed in this paper. Recently proposed end-to-end speaker diarization outperformed conventional clustering-based speaker diarization, but it has one drawback: it is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

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

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

In this paper, we apply a latent class model (LCM) to the task of speaker diarization. LCM is similar to Patrick Kenny's variational Bayes (VB) method in that it uses soft information and avoids premature hard decisions in its iterations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-26 Liang He , Xianhong Chen , Can Xu , Yi Liu , Jia Liu , Michael T Johnson

Speaker verification aims to verify whether an input speech corresponds to the claimed speaker, and conventionally, this kind of system is deployed based on single-stream scenario, wherein the feature extractor operates in full frequency…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Wei Yao , Shen Chen , Jiamin Cui , Yaolin Lou

In this paper, we present a novel framework that jointly performs three tasks: speaker diarization, speech separation, and speaker counting. Our proposed framework integrates speaker diarization based on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Soumi Maiti , Yushi Ueda , Shinji Watanabe , Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu

Learning robust speaker embeddings is a crucial step in speaker diarization. Deep neural networks can accurately capture speaker discriminative characteristics and popular deep embeddings such as x-vectors are nowadays a fundamental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Nauman Dawalatabad , Mirco Ravanelli , François Grondin , Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Hwidong Na

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

This paper proposes a novel online speaker diarization algorithm based on a fully supervised self-attention mechanism (SA-EEND). Online diarization inherently presents a speaker's permutation problem due to the possibility to assign speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yawen Xue , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

Zero-resource speech technology is a growing research area that aims to develop methods for speech processing in the absence of transcriptions, lexicons, or language modelling text. Early term discovery systems focused on identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Herman Kamper , Aren Jansen , Sharon Goldwater

This paper introduces a novel approach to speaker-attributed ASR transcription using a neural clustering method. With a parallel processing mechanism, diarisation and ASR can be applied simultaneously, helping to prevent the accumulation of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Xianrui Zheng , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

In hours-long meeting scenarios, real-time speech stream often struggles with achieving accurate speaker diarization, commonly leading to speaker identification and speaker count errors. To address this challenge, we propose SCDiar, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Naijun Zheng , Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Zhou Huan

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

Neural speaker embeddings encode the speaker's speech characteristics through a DNN model and are prevalent for speaker verification tasks. However, few studies have investigated the usage of neural speaker embeddings for an ASR system. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Christoph Lüscher , Jingjing Xu , Mohammad Zeineldeen , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

The Speaker Diarization and Recognition (SDR) task aims to predict "who spoke when and what" within an audio clip, which is a crucial task in various real-world multi-speaker scenarios such as meeting transcription and dialogue systems.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Han Yin , Yafeng Chen , Chong Deng , Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Chao-Hong Tan , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Xiangang Li

Speaker diarization, the task of segmenting an audio recording based on speaker identity, constitutes an important speech pre-processing step for several downstream applications.The conventional approach to diarization involves multiple…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Prachi Singh , Sriram Ganapathy

In this work, we investigate the use of embeddings for speaker-adaptive training of DNNs (DNN-SAT) focusing on a small amount of adaptation data per speaker. DNN-SAT can be viewed as learning a mapping from each embedding to transformation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Joanna Rownicka , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

A great challenge in speaker representation learning using deep models is to design learning objectives that can enhance the discrimination of unseen speakers under unseen domains. This work proposes a supervised contrastive learning…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Zhe Li , Man-Wai Mak