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This work presents a novel approach for speaker diarization to leverage lexical information provided by automatic speech recognition. We propose a speaker diarization system that can incorporate word-level speaker turn probabilities with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Tae Jin Park , Kyu J. Han , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Clustering-based speaker diarization has stood firm as one of the major approaches in reality, despite recent development in end-to-end diarization. However, clustering methods have not been explored extensively for speaker diarization.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Siqi Zheng , Hongbin Suo

In this paper we describe a speaker diarization system that enables localization and identification of all speakers present in a conversation or meeting. We propose a novel systematic approach to tackle several long-standing challenges in…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Xianliang Wang , Hongbin Suo , Jinwei Feng , Zhijie Yan

Audio fingerprinting techniques have seen great advances in recent years, enabling accurate and fast audio retrieval even in conditions when the queried audio sample has been highly deteriorated or recorded in noisy conditions. Expectedly,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kemal Altwlkany , Sead Delalić , Adis Alihodžić , Elmedin Selmanović , Damir Hasić

For online speaker diarization, samples arrive incrementally, and the overall distribution of the samples is invisible. Moreover, in most existing clustering-based methods, the training objective of the embedding extractor is not designed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yifan Chen , Yifan Guo , Qingxuan Li , Gaofeng Cheng , Pengyuan Zhang , Yonghong Yan

This paper presents a streaming extension for the Sortformer speaker diarization framework, whose key property is the arrival-time ordering of output speakers. The proposed approach employs an Arrival-Order Speaker Cache (AOSC) to store…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Ivan Medennikov , Taejin Park , Weiqing Wang , He Huang , Kunal Dhawan , Jinhan Wang , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Deep clustering is a recently introduced deep learning architecture that uses discriminatively trained embeddings as the basis for clustering. It was recently applied to spectrogram segmentation, resulting in impressive results on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Yusuf Isik , Jonathan Le Roux , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Attractor-based end-to-end diarization is achieving comparable accuracy to the carefully tuned conventional clustering-based methods on challenging datasets. However, the main drawback is that it cannot deal with the case where the number…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Yawen Xue , Yuki Takashima , Yohei Kawaguchi

We present improvements to speaker diarization in the two-stage end-to-end neural diarization with vector clustering (EEND-VC) framework. The first stage employs a Conformer-based EEND model with WavLM features to infer frame-level speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Petr Pálka , Jiangyu Han , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara , Lukáš Burget

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

Speaker diarization is a task to label audio or video recordings with classes that correspond to speaker identity, or in short, a task to identify "who spoke when". In the early years, speaker diarization algorithms were developed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tae Jin Park , Naoyuki Kanda , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe , Shrikanth Narayanan

Deep clustering is the first method to handle general audio separation scenarios with multiple sources of the same type and an arbitrary number of sources, performing impressively in speaker-independent speech separation tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-30 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Nima Mesgarani

Recently, we proposed a novel speaker diarization method called End-to-End-Neural-Diarization-vector clustering (EEND-vector clustering) that integrates clustering-based and end-to-end neural network-based diarization approaches into one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Utterance clustering is one of the actively researched topics in audio signal processing and machine learning. This study aims to improve the performance of utterance clustering by processing multichannel (stereo) audio signals. Processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Yingjun Dong , Neil G. MacLaren , Yiding Cao , Francis J. Yammarino , Shelley D. Dionne , Michael D. Mumford , Shane Connelly , Hiroki Sayama , Gregory A. Ruark

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

More and more neural network approaches have achieved considerable improvement upon submodules of speaker diarization system, including speaker change detection and segment-wise speaker embedding extraction. Still, in the clustering stage,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Qingjian Lin , Ruiqing Yin , Ming Li , Hervé Bredin , Claude Barras

Speaker diarization is the process of labeling different speakers in a speech signal. Deep speaker embeddings are generally extracted from short speech segments and clustered to determine the segments belong to same speaker identity. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Myungjong Kim , Vijendra Raj Apsingekar , Divya Neelagiri

Speaker diarization has gained considerable attention within speech processing research community. Mainstream speaker diarization rely primarily on speakers' voice characteristics extracted from acoustic signals and often overlook the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Qinglin Zhang , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

A widely used approach to clustering a single data stream is the two-phased approach in which the online phase creates and maintains micro-clusters while the off-line phase generates the macro-clustering from the micro-clusters. We use this…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Dang-Hoan Tran