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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

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

The goal of this paper is to adapt speaker embeddings for solving the problem of speaker diarisation. The quality of speaker embeddings is paramount to the performance of speaker diarisation systems. Despite this, prior works in the field…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Youngki Kwon , Jee-weon Jung , Hee-Soo Heo , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

Pre-trained wav2vec2.0 model has been proved its effectiveness for speaker recognition. However, current feature processing methods are focusing on classical pooling on the output features of the pre-trained wav2vec2.0 model, such as mean…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Zirui Ge , Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang

We propose a new speaker diarization system based on a recently introduced unsupervised clustering technique namely, generative adversarial network mixture model (GANMM). The proposed system uses x-vectors as front-end representation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker identification typically involves three stages. First, a front-end speaker embedding model is trained to embed utterance and speaker profiles. Second, a scoring function is applied between a runtime utterance and each speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Zhenning Tan , Yuguang Yang , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional node embeddings without supervision while preserving graph topological structures and node attributive features. Previous graph neural networks (GNN) require a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Combining end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND) with vector clustering (VC), known as EEND-VC, has gained interest for leveraging the strengths of both methods. EEND-VC estimates activities and speaker embeddings for all speakers…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara , Mireia Diez , Federico Landini , Anna Silnova , Atsunori Ogawa , Tomohiro Nakatani , Lukas Burget , Shoko Araki

The paper presents a novel approach to refining similarity scores between input utterances for robust speaker verification. Given the embeddings from a pair of input utterances, a graph model is designed to incorporate additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Jingyu Li , Si-Ioi Ng , Tan Lee

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end neural-network-based speaker diarization method. Unlike most existing methods, our proposed method does not have separate modules for extraction and clustering of speaker representations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez

This paper describes system setup of our submission to speaker diarisation track (Track 4) of VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020. Our diarisation system consists of a well-trained neural network based speech enhancement model as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Renyu Wang , Ruilin Tong , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

Graph-based temporal classification (GTC), a generalized form of the connectionist temporal classification loss, was recently proposed to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems using graph-based supervision. For example, GTC was…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Xuankai Chang , Niko Moritz , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Jonathan Le Roux

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Weiqing Wang , Qingjian Lin , Ming Li

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

Overlapping speech diarization has been traditionally treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding multiple binary labels into a single label with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

This work presents a novel approach to leverage lexical information for speaker diarization. We introduce a speaker diarization system that can directly integrate lexical as well as acoustic information into a speaker clustering process.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tae Jin Park , Kyu Han , Ian Lane , Panayiotis Georgiou

In traditional speaker diarization systems, a well-trained speaker model is a key component to extract representations from consecutive and partially overlapping segments in a long speech session. To be more consistent with the back-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Yu-Huai Peng , Hung-Shin Lee , Pin-Tuan Huang , Hsin-Min Wang