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This paper proposes a guided speaker embedding extraction system, which extracts speaker embeddings of the target speaker using speech activities of target and interference speakers as clues. Several methods for long-form overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Shota Horiguchi , Takafumi Moriya , Atsushi Ando , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix

This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (S2SND) framework to perform online and offline speaker diarization. It is developed from the sequence-to-sequence architecture of our previous target-speaker voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Ming Cheng , Yuke Lin , Ming Li

In the field of speaker verification, session or channel variability poses a significant challenge. While many contemporary methods aim to disentangle session information from speaker embeddings, we introduce a novel approach using an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Hee-Soo Heo , KiHyun Nam , Bong-Jin Lee , Youngki Kwon , Minjae Lee , You Jin Kim , Joon Son Chung

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

For natural language understanding and generation, embedding concepts using an order-based representation is an essential task. Unlike traditional point vector based representation, an order-based representation imposes geometric…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Croix Gyurek , Niloy Talukder , Mohammad Al Hasan

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

Fixed-dimensional speaker embeddings have become the dominant approach in speaker modeling, typically spanning hundreds to thousands of dimensions. These dimensions are hyperparameters that are not specifically picked, nor are they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Shuai Wang , Pengcheng Zhu , Haizhou Li

This paper aims to improve the widely used deep speaker embedding x-vector model. We propose the following improvements: (1) a hybrid neural network structure using both time delay neural network (TDNN) and long short-term memory neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yun Tang , Guohong Ding , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Modern speaker verification systems primarily rely on speaker embeddings, followed by verification based on cosine similarity between the embedding vectors of the enrollment and test utterances. While effective, these methods struggle with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Wan Lin , Junhui Chen , Tianhao Wang , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

Deep neural network based speaker embeddings, such as x-vectors, have been shown to perform well in text-independent speaker recognition/verification tasks. In this paper, we use simple classifiers to investigate the contents encoded by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Desh Raj , David Snyder , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

We propose an interpretable Batch-EM Unfolded Network for robust speaker localization. By embedding the iterative EM procedure within an encoder-EM-decoder architecture, the method mitigates initialization sensitivity and improves…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Rina Veler , Sharon Gannot

Learning robust speaker embeddings is a crucial step in speaker diarization. Deep neural networks can accurately capture speaker discriminative characteristics and popular deep embeddings such as x-vectors are nowadays a fundamental…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Nauman Dawalatabad , Mirco Ravanelli , François Grondin , Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Hwidong Na

Modeling the rich prosodic variations inherent in human speech is essential for generating natural-sounding speech. While speaker embeddings are commonly used as conditioning inputs in personalized speech generation, they are typically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , John H. L. Hansen , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

We propose an algorithm to denoise speakers from a single microphone in the presence of non-stationary and dynamic noise. Our approach is inspired by the recent success of neural network models separating speakers from other speakers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Jeff Hetherly , Paul Gamble , Maria Barrios , Cory Stephenson , Karl Ni

State-of-the-art text-independent speaker verification systems typically use cepstral features or filter bank energies as speech features. Recent studies attempted to extract speaker embeddings directly from raw waveforms and have shown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Ge Zhu , Fei Jiang , Zhiyao Duan

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

Speaker diarization remains challenging due to the need for structured speaker representations, efficient modeling, and robustness to varying conditions. We propose a performant, compact diarization framework that integrates conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

This study investigates the explainability of embedding representations, specifically those used in modern audio spoofing detection systems based on deep neural networks, known as spoof embeddings. Building on established work in speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuechen Liu , Junichi Yamagishi , Md Sahidullah , Tomi kinnunen

Speaker embedding has been a fundamental feature for speaker-related tasks such as verification, clustering, and diarization. Traditionally, speaker embeddings are represented as fixed vectors in high-dimensional space. This could lead to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Siqi Zheng , Hongbin Suo , Qian Chen

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