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Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

In recent years, there have been studies to further improve the end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND) systems. This letter proposes the EEND-DEMUX model, a novel framework utilizing demultiplexed speaker embeddings. In this work, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Canyeong Moon , Nam Soo Kim

In this paper, we present a conditional multitask learning method for end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND). The EEND system has shown promising performance compared with traditional clustering-based methods, especially in the case…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Yuki Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Paola García , Kenji Nagamatsu

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

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

The objective of this work is effective speaker diarisation using multi-scale speaker embeddings. Typically, there is a trade-off between the ability to recognise short speaker segments and the discriminative power of the embedding,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Youngki Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , You Jin Kim , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

We propose a diarization system, that estimates "who spoke when" based on spatial information, to be used as a front-end of a meeting transcription system running on the signals gathered from an acoustic sensor network (ASN). Although the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

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

Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Usable speech criteria are proposed to extract minimally corrupted speech for speaker identification (SID) in co-channel speech. In co-channel speech, either speaker can randomly appear as the stronger speaker or the weaker one at a time.…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Wajdi Ghezaiel , Amel Ben Slimane , Ezzedine Ben Braiek

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

DIHARD III was the third in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variability in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational domain. Speaker diarization was…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Neville Ryant , Prachi Singh , Venkat Krishnamohan , Rajat Varma , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

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 introduces the second DIHARD challenge, the second in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variation in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Neville Ryant , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Alejandrina Cristia , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

Recent works show that speech separation guided diarization (SSGD) is an increasingly promising direction, mainly thanks to the recent progress in speech separation. It performs diarization by first separating the speakers and then applying…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Giovanni Morrone , Samuele Cornell , Luca Serafini , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Speaker diarization is an essential step for processing multi-speaker audio. Although an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method achieved state-of-the-art performance, it is limited to a fixed number of speakers. In this paper, we solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Jing Shi , Kenji Nagamatsu

In this paper, we introduce an unsupervised approach for Speech Segmentation, which builds on previously researched approaches, e.g., Speaker Diarization, while being applicable to an inclusive set of acoustic-semantic distinctions, paving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Avishai Elmakies , Omri Abend , Yossi Adi

Neuro-steered speaker extraction aims to extract the listener's brain-attended speech signal from a multi-talker speech signal, in which the attention is derived from the cortical activity. This activity is usually recorded using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Zexu Pan , Gordon Wichern , Francois G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Jonathan Le Roux

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang