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Automatic speaker verification task has made great achievements using deep learning approaches with the large-scale manually annotated dataset. However, it's very difficult and expensive to collect a large amount of well-labeled data for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

Considering the abundance of unlabeled speech data and the high labeling costs, unsupervised learning methods can be essential for better system development. One of the most successful methods is contrastive self-supervised methods, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Jaejin Cho , Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Chong Deng , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persisting challenge. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-28 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

In real application scenarios, it is often challenging to obtain a large amount of labeled data for speaker representation learning due to speaker privacy concerns. Self-supervised learning with no labels has become a more and more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhengyang Chen , Yao Qian , Bing Han , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Developing robust speaker verification (SV) systems without speaker labels has been a longstanding challenge. Earlier research has highlighted a considerable performance gap between self-supervised and fully supervised approaches. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Yafeng Chen , Chong Deng , Hui Wang , Yiheng Jiang , Han Yin , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

The goal of this paper is to train effective self-supervised speaker representations without identity labels. We propose two curriculum learning strategies within a self-supervised learning framework. The first strategy aims to gradually…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Jingu Kang , Youngki Kwon , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

In recent studies, self-supervised pre-trained models tend to outperform supervised pre-trained models in transfer learning. In particular, self-supervised learning (SSL) of utterance-level speech representation can be used in speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Jaejin Cho , Jes'us Villalba , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

With the continuous development of speech recognition technology, speaker verification (SV) has become an important method for identity authentication. Traditional SV methods rely on handcrafted feature extraction, while deep learning has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhaorui Sun , Yihao Chen , Jialong Wang , Minqiang Xu , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

This technical report describes Johns Hopkins University speaker recognition system submitted to Voxceleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2021 Track 3: Self-supervised speaker verification (closed). Our overall training process is similar to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-29 Jejin Cho , Jesus Villalba , Najim Dehak

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

Knowledge distillation (KD) is used to enhance automatic speaker verification performance by ensuring consistency between large teacher networks and lightweight student networks at the embedding level or label level. However, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Duc-Tuan Truong , Ruijie Tao , Jia Qi Yip , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

Current speaker recognition systems primarily rely on supervised approaches, constrained by the scale of labeled datasets. To boost the system performance, researchers leverage large pretrained models such as WavLM to transfer learned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Shuai Wang , Qibing Bai , Qi Liu , Jianwei Yu , Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

This report describes the submission of the DKU-DukeECE team to the self-supervision speaker verification task of the 2021 VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC). Our method employs an iterative labeling framework to learn…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Danwei Cai , Ming Li

Recent developments in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have demonstrated significant potential for Speaker Verification (SV), but closing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. SSL frameworks rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

We address zero-shot TTS systems' noise-robustness problem by proposing a dual-objective training for the speaker encoder using self-supervised DINO loss. This approach enhances the speaker encoder with the speech synthesis objective,…

Deep learning models trained in a supervised setting have revolutionized audio and speech processing. However, their performance inherently depends on the quantity of human-annotated data, making them costly to scale and prone to poor…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of vision tasks. In particular, self-distillation frameworks such as DINO have contributed significantly to these advances. Within such frameworks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jihyeon Seong , Hyunkyung Han
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