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Summarizing conversations via neural approaches has been gaining research traction lately, yet it is still challenging to obtain practical solutions. Examples of such challenges include unstructured information exchange in dialogues,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Zhengyuan Liu , Ke Shi , Nancy F. Chen

Target speech extraction, which extracts the speech of a target speaker in a mixture given auxiliary speaker clues, has recently received increased interest. Various clues have been investigated such as pre-recorded enrollment utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Marc Delcroix , Katerina Zmolikova , Tsubasa Ochiai , Keisuke Kinoshita , Tomohiro Nakatani

Speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization (SD) models have traditionally been trained separately to produce rich conversation transcripts with speaker labels. Recent advances have shown that joint ASR and SD models can learn to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Huanru Henry Mao , Shuyang Li , Julian McAuley , Garrison Cottrell

The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and proposes an integrative model of language and speaker processing that integrates distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hanlin Wu , Zhenguang G. Cai

Most neural speaker diarization systems rely on sufficient manual training data labels, which are hard to collect under real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a semi-supervised speaker diarization system to utilize large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Shilong Wu , Jun Du , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Hang Chen , Haitao Tang , Chin-Hui Lee

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

Self-supervised learning of speech representations from large amounts of unlabeled data has enabled state-of-the-art results in several speech processing tasks. Aggregating these speech representations across time is typically approached by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Themos Stafylakis , Ladislav Mosner , Sofoklis Kakouros , Oldrich Plchot , Lukas Burget , Jan Cernocky

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 tracking methods often rely on spatial observations to assign coherent track identities over time. This raises limits in scenarios with intermittent and moving speakers, i.e., speakers that may change position when they are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Taous Iatariene , Can Cui , Alexandre Guérin , Romain Serizel

Emotions play a central role in human communication, shaping trust, engagement, and social interaction. As artificial intelligence systems powered by large language models become increasingly integrated into everyday life, enabling them to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Soumya Dutta

Recent speaker diarization studies showed that integration of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) and clustering-based diarization is a promising approach for achieving state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. Such an approach first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Keisuke Kinoshita , Thilo von Neumann , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Speaker diarization is a fundamental task in speech processing that involves dividing an audio stream by speaker. Although state-of-the-art models have advanced performance in high-resource languages, low-resource languages such as Kurdish…

We propose a modular pipeline for the single-channel separation, recognition, and diarization of meeting-style recordings and evaluate it on the Libri-CSS dataset. Using a Continuous Speech Separation (CSS) system with a TF-GridNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Speaker diarization is the process of labeling different speakers in a speech signal. Deep speaker embeddings are generally extracted from short speech segments and clustered to determine the segments belong to same speaker identity. The…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Myungjong Kim , Vijendra Raj Apsingekar , Divya Neelagiri

The current monaural state of the art tools for speech separation relies on supervised learning. This means that they must deal with permutation problem, they are impacted by the mismatch on the number of speakers used in training and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Peter Ochieng

Over the last few years, deep learning has grown in popularity for speaker verification, identification, and diarization. Inarguably, a significant part of this success is due to the demonstrated effectiveness of their speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Yehoshua Dissen , Felix Kreuk , Joseph Keshet

Speaker diarization aims to segment audio recordings into regions corresponding to individual speakers. Although unsupervised speaker diarization is inherently challenging, the prospect of identifying speaker regions without pretraining or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Nikhil Raghav , Avisek Gupta , Swagatam Das , Md Sahidullah

Speaker embeddings are promising identity-related features that can enhance the identity assignment performance of a tracking system by leveraging its spatial predictions, i.e, by performing identity reassignment. Common speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Taous Iatariene , Alexandre Guérin , Romain Serizel

In hours-long meeting scenarios, real-time speech stream often struggles with achieving accurate speaker diarization, commonly leading to speaker identification and speaker count errors. To address this challenge, we propose SCDiar, a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Naijun Zheng , Xucheng Wan , Kai Liu , Zhou Huan

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