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Speaker diarization is the task of answering Who spoke and when? in an audio stream. Pipeline systems rely on speech segmentation to extract speakers' segments and achieve robust speaker diarization. This paper proposes a common framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Théo Mariotte , Anthony Larcher , Silvio Montrésor , Jean-Hugh Thomas

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

Speaker Diarization (SD) aims at grouping speech segments that belong to the same speaker. This task is required in many speech-processing applications, such as rich meeting transcription. In this context, distant microphone arrays usually…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Theo Mariotte , Anthony Larcher , Silvio Montresor , Jean-Hugh Thomas

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

Speaker identification in noisy audio recordings, specifically those from collaborative learning environments, can be extremely challenging. There is a need to identify individual students talking in small groups from other students talking…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Antonio Gomez

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

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

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

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

Existing speaker diarization systems typically rely on large amounts of manually annotated data, which is labor-intensive and difficult to obtain, especially in real-world scenarios. Additionally, language-specific constraints in these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Phat Lam , Lam Pham , Truong Nguyen , Dat Ngo , Thinh Pham , Tin Nguyen , Loi Khanh Nguyen , Alexander Schindler

We propose a diarization system, that estimates "who spoke when" based on spatial information, to be used as a front-end of a meeting transcription system running on the signals gathered from an acoustic sensor network (ASN). Although the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Majority of speech signals across different scenarios are never available with well-defined audio segments containing only a single speaker. A typical conversation between two speakers consists of segments where their voices overlap,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Siddharth S. Nijhawan , Homayoon Beigi

We propose a new method for speaker diarization that can handle overlapping speech with 2+ people. Our method is based on compositional embeddings [1]: Like standard speaker embedding methods such as x-vector [2], compositional embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zeqian Li , Jacob Whitehill

This paper presents a computationally efficient and distributed speaker diarization framework for networked IoT-style audio devices. The work proposes a Federated Learning model which can identify the participants in a conversation without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

Self-supervised models such as WavLM have demonstrated strong performance for neural speaker diarization. However, these models are typically pre-trained on single-channel recordings, limiting their effectiveness in multi-channel scenarios.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Jiangyu Han , Ruoyu Wang , Yoshiki Masuyama , Marc Delcroix , Johan Rohdin , Jun Du , Lukas Burget

Several advances have been made recently towards handling overlapping speech for speaker diarization. Since speech and natural language tasks often benefit from ensemble techniques, we propose an algorithm for combining outputs from such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Leibny Paola Garcia-Perera , Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Daniel Povey , Andreas Stolcke , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Speaker diarization systems segment a conversation recording based on the speakers' identity. Such systems can misclassify the speaker of a portion of audio due to a variety of factors, such as speech pattern variation, background noise,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Anurag Chowdhury , Abhinav Misra , Mark C. Fuhs , Monika Woszczyna

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…

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

We propose a system that transcribes the conversation of a typical meeting scenario that is captured by a set of initially unsynchronized microphone arrays at unknown positions. It consists of subsystems for signal synchronization,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Tobias Gburrek , Christoph Boeddeker , Thilo von Neumann , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach