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In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually hand-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Pawel Cyrta , Tomasz Trzciński , Wojciech Stokowiec

Speaker diarization relies on the assumption that speech segments corresponding to a particular speaker are concentrated in a specific region of the speaker space; a region which represents that speaker's identity. These identities are not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Overlapping speech diarization is always treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding the multi-speaker labels with power set. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Ming Lei

In this paper two different approaches to enhance the performance of the most challenging component of a Speaker Diarization system are presented, i.e. the speaker clustering part. A processing step is proposed enhancing the input features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Dimitrios Dimitriadis

Speaker extraction and diarization are two enabling techniques for real-world speech applications. Speaker extraction aims to extract a target speaker's voice from a speech mixture, while speaker diarization demarcates speech segments by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junyi Ao , Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

This paper describes system setup of our submission to speaker diarisation track (Track 4) of VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020. Our diarisation system consists of a well-trained neural network based speech enhancement model as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Renyu Wang , Ruilin Tong , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

The state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems use agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) which performs the clustering of previously learned neural embeddings. While the clustering approach attempts to identify speaker clusters, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Prachi Singh , Sriram Ganapathy

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end neural-network-based speaker diarization method. Unlike most existing methods, our proposed method does not have separate modules for extraction and clustering of speaker representations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

In speaker diarization, traditional clustering-based methods remain widely used in real-world applications. However, these methods struggle with the complex distribution of speaker embeddings and overlapping speech segments. To address…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhaoyang Li , Jie Wang , XiaoXiao Li , Wangjie Li , Longjie Luo , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Using a Teacher-Student training approach we developed a speaker embedding extraction system that outputs embeddings at frame rate. Given this high temporal resolution and the fact that the student produces sensible speaker embeddings even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This paper describes a spatial-aware speaker diarization system for the multi-channel multi-party meeting. The diarization system obtains direction information of speaker by microphone array. Speaker spatial embedding is generated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Feng Tong , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

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

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

Deep speaker embedding models have been commonly used as a building block for speaker diarization systems; however, the speaker embedding model is usually trained according to a global loss defined on the training data, which could be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jixuan Wang , Xiong Xiao , Jian Wu , Ranjani Ramamurthy , Frank Rudzicz , Michael Brudno

Speaker recognition systems based on deep speaker embeddings have achieved significant performance in controlled conditions according to the results obtained for early NIST SRE (Speaker Recognition Evaluation) datasets. From the practical…

In spite of the popularity of end-to-end diarization systems nowadays, modular systems comprised of voice activity detection (VAD), speaker embedding extraction plus clustering, and overlapped speech detection (OSD) plus handling still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Petr Pálka , Federico Landini , Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget

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 diarization systems are challenged by a trade-off between the temporal resolution and the fidelity of the speaker representation. By obtaining a superior temporal resolution with an enhanced accuracy, a multi-scale approach is a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Tae Jin Park , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias

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