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This paper presents the system developed to address the MISP 2025 Challenge. For the diarization system, we proposed a hybrid approach combining a WavLM end-to-end segmentation method with a traditional multi-module clustering technique to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Shangkun Huang , Yuxuan Du , Jingwen Yang , Dejun Zhang , Xupeng Jia , Jing Deng , Jintao Kang , Rong Zheng

We propose a modified teacher-student training for the extraction of frame-wise speaker embeddings that allows for an effective diarization of meeting scenarios containing partially overlapping speech. To this end, a geodesic distance loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We propose a speaker selection mechanism (SSM) for the training of an end-to-end beamforming neural network, based on recent findings that a listener usually looks to the target speaker with a certain undershot angle. The mechanism allows…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Luan Vinícius Fiorio , Bruno Defraene , Johan David , Alex Young , Frans Widdershoven , Wim van Houtum , Ronald M. Aarts

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

In this paper, we present the Blind Speech Separation and Dereverberation (BSSD) network, which performs simultaneous speaker separation, dereverberation and speaker identification in a single neural network. Speaker separation is guided by…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Lukas Pfeifenberger , Franz Pernkopf

We propose a spatio-spectral, combined model-based and data-driven diarization pipeline consisting of TDOA-based segmentation followed by embedding-based clustering. The proposed system requires neither access to multi-channel training data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Tobias Gburrek , Marc Deegen , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Most neural speaker diarization systems rely on sufficient manual training data labels, which are hard to collect under real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a semi-supervised speaker diarization system to utilize large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Shilong Wu , Jun Du , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Hang Chen , Haitao Tang , Chin-Hui Lee

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

This work proposes a neural network to extensively exploit spatial information for multichannel joint speech separation, denoising and dereverberation, named SpatialNet. In the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain, the proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Changsheng Quan , Xiaofei Li

This paper describes a method for overlap-aware speaker diarization. Given an overlap detector and a speaker embedding extractor, our method performs spectral clustering of segments informed by the output of the overlap detector. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) of multi-channel multi-speaker overlapped speech remains one of the most challenging tasks to the speech community. In this paper, we look into this challenge by utilizing the location information of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yiwen Shao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sometimes when it was spoken. Recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Li Li , Ming Cheng , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Recently, multi-channel speech enhancement has drawn much interest due to the use of spatial information to distinguish target speech from interfering signal. To make full use of spatial information and neural network based masking…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Shubo Lv , Yihui Fu , Yukai Jv , Lei Xie , Weixin Zhu , Wei Rao , Yannan Wang

We propose a modular pipeline for the single-channel separation, recognition, and diarization of meeting-style recordings and evaluate it on the Libri-CSS dataset. Using a Continuous Speech Separation (CSS) system with a TF-GridNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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

The objective of this work is effective speaker diarisation using multi-scale speaker embeddings. Typically, there is a trade-off between the ability to recognise short speaker segments and the discriminative power of the embedding,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Youngki Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

Speaker embeddings are promising identity-related features that can enhance the identity assignment performance of a tracking system by leveraging its spatial predictions, i.e, by performing identity reassignment. Common speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Taous Iatariene , Alexandre Guérin , Romain Serizel