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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

This report describes the submission of the DKU-DukeECE-Lenovo team to the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) 2021 track 4. Our system including a voice activity detection (VAD) model, a speaker embedding model, two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Weiqing Wang , Danwei Cai , Qingjian Lin , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jin Wang , Ming Li

In this paper, we present the submitted system for the second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKULENOVO team. Our diarization system includes multiple modules, namely voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Qingjian Lin , Weicheng Cai , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jun Zhang , Ming Li

For many years, i-vector based audio embedding techniques were the dominant approach for speaker verification and speaker diarization applications. However, mirroring the rise of deep learning in various domains, neural network based audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Quan Wang , Carlton Downey , Li Wan , Philip Andrew Mansfield , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

In this paper, we propose an online speaker diarization system based on Relation Network, named RenoSD. Unlike conventional diariztion systems which consist of several independently-optimized modules, RenoSD implements…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Xiang Li , Yucheng Zhao , Chong Luo , Wenjun Zeng

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) in the presence of background noise remains a challenging problem in speech processing. Accurate VAD is essential in automatic speech recognition, voice-to-text, conversational agents, etc, where noise can…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Hamed Jafarzadeh Asl , Mahsa Ghazvini Nejad , Amin Edraki , Masoud Asgharian , Vahid Partovi Nia

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) refers to the problem of distinguishing speech segments from background noise. Numerous approaches have been proposed for this purpose. Some are based on features derived from the power spectral density,…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Thomas Drugman , Yannis Stylianou , Yusuke Kida , Masami Akamine

Speaker segmentation consists in partitioning a conversation between one or more speakers into speaker turns. Usually addressed as the late combination of three sub-tasks (voice activity detection, speaker change detection, and overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Hervé Bredin , Antoine Laurent

This paper proposes a novel Attention-based Encoder-Decoder network for End-to-End Neural speaker Diarization (AED-EEND). In AED-EEND system, we incorporate the target speaker enrollment information used in target speaker voice activity…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

This report presents the system developed by the ABSP Laboratory team for the third DIHARD speech diarization challenge. Our main contribution in this work is to develop a simple and efficient solution for acoustic domain dependent speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-26 A Kishore Kumar , Shefali Waldekar , Goutam Saha , Md Sahidullah

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

Sound Event Detection (SED) detects regions of sound events, while Speaker Diarization (SD) segments speech conversations attributed to individual speakers. In SED, all speaker segments are classified as a single speech event, while in SD,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Wen Huang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step in a wide variety of speech processing systems. VAD should in a practical application be able to detect speech in both noisy and noise-free environments, while not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Claus Meyer Larsen , Peter Koch , Zheng-Hua Tan

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) is conventionally performed by modelling the temporal synchronisation of acoustic and visual speech cues. In egocentric recordings, however, the efficacy of synchronisation-based methods is…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

The conversation scenario is one of the most important and most challenging scenarios for speech processing technologies because people in conversation respond to each other in a casual style. Detecting the speech activities of each person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Gaofeng Cheng , Yifan Chen , Runyan Yang , Qingxuan Li , Zehui Yang , Lingxuan Ye , Pengyuan Zhang , Qingqing Zhang , Lei Xie , Yanmin Qian , Kong Aik Lee , Yonghong Yan

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is a fundamental preprocessing step in automatic speech recognition. This is especially true within the broadcast industry where a wide variety of audio materials and recording conditions are encountered.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-10 Misa Ogura , Matt Haynes

The human brain has the capability to associate the unknown person's voice and face by leveraging their general relationship, referred to as ``cross-modal speaker verification''. This task poses significant challenges due to the complex…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Ruijie Tao , Zhan Shi , Yidi Jiang , Duc-Tuan Truong , Eng-Siong Chng , Massimo Alioto , Haizhou Li

Voice activity detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step for speech technology applications. The task consists of deriving segment boundaries of audio signals which contain voicing information. In recent years, it has been shown…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Eklavya Sarkar , RaviShankar Prasad , Mathew Magimai. -Doss

We performed an experimental review of current diarization systems for the conversational telephone speech (CTS) domain. In detail, we considered a total of eight different algorithms belonging to clustering-based, end-to-end neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Luca Serafini , Samuele Cornell , Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

We introduce 3D-Speaker-Toolkit, an open-source toolkit for multimodal speaker verification and diarization, designed for meeting the needs of academic researchers and industrial practitioners. The 3D-Speaker-Toolkit adeptly leverages the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Tinglong Zhu , Rongjie Huang , Chong Deng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang , Xihao Li