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Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Deep neural networks have recently led to promising results for the task of multiple sound source localization. Yet, they require a lot of training data to cover a variety of acoustic conditions and microphone array layouts. One can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Guillaume Le Moing , Phongtharin Vinayavekhin , Don Joven Agravante , Tadanobu Inoue , Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal , Asim Munawar , Ryuki Tachibana

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

Verifying the identity of a speaker is crucial in modern human-machine interfaces, e.g., to ensure privacy protection or to enable biometric authentication. Classical speaker verification (SV) approaches estimate a fixed-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Ahmad Aloradi , Wolfgang Mack , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Meta-learning has recently become a research hotspot in speaker verification (SV). We introduce two methods to improve the meta-learning training for SV in this paper. For the first method, a backbone embedding network is first jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Yafeng Chen , Wu Guo , Bin Gu

Speaker verification is a task of confirming an individual's identity through the analysis of their voice. Whispered speech differs from phonated speech in acoustic characteristics, which degrades the performance of speaker verification…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Magdalena Gołębiowska , Piotr Syga

To improve speaker verification in real scenarios with interference speakers, noise, and reverberation, we propose to bring together advancements made in multi-channel speech features. Specifically, we combine spectral, spatial, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Saurabh Kataria , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Speaker diarization, which is to find the speech segments of specific speakers, has been widely used in human-centered applications such as video conferences or human-computer interaction systems. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Yifan Ding , Yong Xu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yahuan Cong , Liqiang Wang

Deep embedding based text-independent speaker verification has demonstrated superior performance to traditional methods in many challenging scenarios. Its loss functions can be generally categorized into two classes, i.e., verification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Jingdong Chen

A large number of works view the automatic assessment of speech from an utterance- or system-level perspective. While such approaches are good in judging overall quality, they cannot adequately explain why a certain score was assigned to an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Michael Kuhlmann , Alexander Werning , Thilo von Neumann , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

While many researchers in the speaker recognition area have started to replace the former classical state-of-the-art methods with deep learning techniques, some of the traditional i-vector-based methods are still state-of-the-art in the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh

The widespread adoption of deep-learning models in data-driven applications has drawn attention to the potential risks associated with biased datasets and models. Neglected or hidden biases within datasets and models can lead to unexpected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Md Sahidullah , Hye-jin Shim , Rosa Gonzalez Hautamäki , Tomi H. Kinnunen

Text-independent speaker verification is an important artificial intelligence problem that has a wide spectrum of applications, such as criminal investigation, payment certification, and interest-based customer services. The purpose of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Jiwei Xu , Xinggang Wang , Bin Feng , Wenyu Liu

The state-of-art approach to speaker verification involves the extraction of discriminative embeddings like x-vectors followed by a generative model back-end using a probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA). In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Shreyas Ramoji , Prashant Krishnan , Prachi Singh , Sriram Ganapathy

In this paper, we provide a large audio-visual speaker recognition dataset, VoxBlink2, which includes approximately 10M utterances with videos from 110K+ speakers in the wild. This dataset represents a significant expansion over the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Fulin Zhang , Yingying Gao , Shilei Zhang , Ming Li

End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

End-to-end neural diarization models have usually relied on a multilabel-classification formulation of the speaker diarization problem. Recently, we proposed a powerset multiclass formulation that has beaten the state-of-the-art on multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Alexis Plaquet , Hervé Bredin

Multilingual speaker verification (SV) remains challenging due to limited cross-lingual data and language-dependent information in speaker embeddings. This paper presents a language-invariant multilingual SV system for the TidyVoice 2026…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Ze Li , Xiaoxiao Miao , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Recently in speaker recognition, performance degradation due to the channel domain mismatched condition has been actively addressed. However, the mismatches arising from language is yet to be sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes an…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Suwon Shon , Seongkyu Mun , Hanseok Ko