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In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually hand-crafted…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Pawel Cyrta , Tomasz Trzciński , Wojciech Stokowiec

Accurate transcription and speaker diarization of child-adult spoken interactions are crucial for developmental and clinical research. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and challenging to scale. Existing automated systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Somer Bishop , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

In multilingual societies, social conversations often involve code-mixed speech. The current speech technology may not be well equipped to extract information from multi-lingual multi-speaker conversations. The DISPLACE challenge entails a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Shikha Baghel , Shreyas Ramoji , Sidharth , Ranjana H , Prachi Singh , Somil Jain , Pratik Roy Chowdhuri , Kaustubh Kulkarni , Swapnil Padhi , Deepu Vijayasenan , Sriram Ganapathy

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…

We introduce and analyze a novel approach to the problem of speaker identification in multi-party recorded meetings. Given a speech segment and a set of available candidate profiles, we propose a novel data-driven way to model the distance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

This paper investigates the use of target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR) for simultaneous speech recognition and speaker diarization of single-channel dialogue recordings. TS-ASR is a technique to automatically extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Speaker diarization is necessary for interpreting conversations transcribed using automated speech recognition (ASR) tools. Despite significant developments in diarization methods, diarization accuracy remains an issue. Here, we investigate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Georgios Efstathiadis , Vijay Yadav , Anzar Abbas

In this paper, we introduce DiarizationLM, a framework to leverage large language models (LLM) to post-process the outputs from a speaker diarization system. Various goals can be achieved with the proposed framework, such as improving the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-10 Quan Wang , Yiling Huang , Guanlong Zhao , Evan Clark , Wei Xia , Hank Liao

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

Speaker diarization systems segment a conversation recording based on the speakers' identity. Such systems can misclassify the speaker of a portion of audio due to a variety of factors, such as speech pattern variation, background noise,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Anurag Chowdhury , Abhinav Misra , Mark C. Fuhs , Monika Woszczyna

We present a modular toolkit to perform joint speaker diarization and speaker identification. The toolkit can leverage on multiple models and algorithms which are defined in a configuration file. Such flexibility allows our system to work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Fabio Brugnara , Enrico Sartori , Leonardo Badino

In the field of speaker diarization, the development of technology is constrained by two problems: insufficient data resources and poor generalization ability of deep learning models. To address these two problems, firstly, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Shilong Wu

Speaker diarization consists of assigning speech signals to people engaged in a dialogue. An audio-visual spatiotemporal diarization model is proposed. The model is well suited for challenging scenarios that consist of several participants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Israel D. Gebru , Silèye Ba , Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

While there has been substantial amount of work in speaker diarization recently, there are few efforts in jointly employing lexical and acoustic information for speaker segmentation. Towards that, we investigate a speaker diarization system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-29 Tae Jin Park , Panayiotis Georgiou

This paper describes the TSUP team's submission to the ISCSLP 2022 conversational short-phrase speaker diarization (CSSD) challenge which particularly focuses on short-phrase conversations with a new evaluation metric called conversational…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Bowen Pang , Huan Zhao , Gaosheng Zhang , Xiaoyue Yang , Yang Sun , Li Zhang , Qing Wang , Lei Xie

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for capturing contextual information in natural language processing tasks. We propose a novel approach to speaker diarization that incorporates the prowess of LLMs to exploit contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Tae Jin Park , Kunal Dhawan , Nithin Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

End-to-end diarization presents an attractive alternative to standard cascaded diarization systems because a single system can handle all aspects of the task at once. Many flavors of end-to-end models have been proposed but all of them…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Federico Landini , Mireia Diez , Alicia Lozano-Diez , Lukáš Burget

Recent advances in speech-aware language models have coupled strong acoustic encoders with large language models, enabling systems that move beyond transcription to produce richer outputs. Among these, word-level timestamp prediction is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Xulin Fan , Vishal Sunder , Samuel Thomas , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson , Brian Kingsbury , George Saon

This paper proposes a novel label-synchronous speech-to-text alignment technique for automatic speech recognition (ASR). The speech-to-text alignment is a problem of splitting long audio recordings with un-aligned transcripts into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yusuke Kida , Tatsuya Komatsu , Masahito Togami