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Recently, end-to-end speaker extraction has attracted increasing attention and shown promising results. However, its performance is often inferior to that of a blind source separation (BSS) counterpart with a similar network architecture,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Zifeng Zhao , Dongchao Yang , Rongzhi Gu , Haoran Zhang , Yuexian Zou

Strong representations of target speakers can help extract important information about speakers and detect corresponding temporal regions in multi-speaker conversations. In this study, we propose a neural architecture that simultaneously…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chin-Yi Cheng , Hung-Shin Lee , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

In multi-speaker applications is common to have pre-computed models from enrolled speakers. Using these models to identify the instances in which these speakers intervene in a recording is the task of speaker tracking. In this paper, we…

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

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

Recent speaker diarisation systems often convert variable length speech segments into fixed-length vector representations for speaker clustering, which are known as speaker embeddings. In this paper, the content-aware speaker embeddings…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 G. Sun , D. Liu , C. Zhang , P. C. Woodland

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

The most common approach to speaker diarization is clustering of speaker embeddings. However, the clustering-based approach has a number of problems; i.e., (i) it is not optimized to minimize diarization errors directly, (ii) it cannot…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

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

In recent years, the rapid progress in speaker verification (SV) technology has been driven by the extraction of speaker representations based on deep learning. However, such representations are still vulnerable to emotion variability. To…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingguang Tian , Xinhui Hu , Xinkang Xu

Although automatic emotion recognition (AER) has recently drawn significant research interest, most current AER studies use manually segmented utterances, which are usually unavailable for dialogue systems. This paper proposes integrating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

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 diarization is an essential step for processing multi-speaker audio. Although an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method achieved state-of-the-art performance, it is limited to a fixed number of speakers. In this paper, we solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Jing Shi , Kenji Nagamatsu

The objective of this work is speaker diarisation of speech recordings 'in the wild'. The ability to determine speech segments is a crucial part of diarisation systems, accounting for a large proportion of errors. In this paper, we present…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Youngki Kwon , Hee Soo Heo , Jaesung Huh , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

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

Significant progress has recently been made in speaker diarisation after the introduction of d-vectors as speaker embeddings extracted from neural network (NN) speaker classifiers for clustering speech segments. To extract better-performing…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai