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State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

This paper describes our solution for the Diarization of Speaker and Language in Conversational Environments Challenge (Displace 2023). We used a combination of VAD for finding segfments with speech, Resnet architecture based CNN for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ali Aliyev

A robust multichannel speaker diarization and separation system is proposed by exploiting the spatio-temporal activity of the speakers. The system is realized in a hybrid architecture that combines the array signal processing units and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-31 Yicheng Hsu , Ssuhan Chen , Mingsian R. Bai

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

Speaker clustering is an essential step in conventional speaker diarization systems and is typically addressed as an audio-only speech processing task. The language used by the participants in a conversation, however, carries additional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Shrikanth Narayanan

Recently, hybrid systems of clustering and neural diarization models have been successfully applied in multi-party meeting analysis. However, current models always treat overlapped speaker diarization as a multi-label classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

Identifying the identity of the speaker of short segments in human dialogue has been considered one of the most challenging problems in speech signal processing. Speaker representations of short speech segments tend to be unreliable,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-23 Tae Jin Park , Manoj Kumar , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker diarization, usually denoted as the ''who spoke when'' task, turns out to be particularly challenging when applied to fictional films, where many characters talk in various acoustic conditions (background music, sound effects...).…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xavier Bost , Georges Linares

Multi-source localization is an important and challenging technique for multi-talker conversation analysis. This paper proposes a novel supervised learning method using deep neural networks to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of all…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Chao Weng , Shinji Watanabe , Meng Yu , Dong Yu

Current speaker diarization systems rely on an external voice activity detection model prior to speaker embedding extraction on the detected speech segments. In this paper, we establish that the attention system of a speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Jenthe Thienpondt , Kris Demuynck

Audio-visual learning has demonstrated promising results in many classical speech tasks (e.g., speech separation, automatic speech recognition, wake-word spotting). We believe that introducing visual modality will also benefit speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Ming Cheng , Ming Li

This paper describes a spatial-aware speaker diarization system for the multi-channel multi-party meeting. The diarization system obtains direction information of speaker by microphone array. Speaker spatial embedding is generated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Feng Tong , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

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

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

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

Speakers may move around while diarisation is being performed. When a microphone array is used, the instantaneous locations of where the sounds originated from can be estimated, and previous investigations have shown that such information…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Jeremy H. M. Wong , Yifan Gong

We consider the problem of speaker diarization, the problem of segmenting an audio recording of a meeting into temporal segments corresponding to individual speakers. The problem is rendered particularly difficult by the fact that we are…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-13 Emily B. Fox , Erik B. Sudderth , Michael I. Jordan , Alan S. Willsky

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 paper describes a system that generates speaker-annotated transcripts of meetings by using a microphone array and a 360-degree camera. The hallmark of the system is its ability to handle overlapped speech, which has been an unsolved…

Speaker diarization (SD) struggles in real-world scenarios due to dynamic environments and unknown speaker counts. SD is rarely used alone and is often paired with automatic speech recognition (ASR), but non-modular methods that jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yu-Wen Chen , William Ho , Maxim Topaz , Julia Hirschberg , Zoran Kostic