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We propose a streaming diarization method based on an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) model, which handles flexible numbers of speakers and overlapping speech. In our previous study, the speaker-tracing buffer (STB) mechanism was…

The CHiME challenges have played a significant role in the development and evaluation of robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. We introduce the CHiME-7 distant ASR (DASR) task, within the 7th CHiME challenge. This task…

We propose a new speaker diarization system based on a recently introduced unsupervised clustering technique namely, generative adversarial network mixture model (GANMM). The proposed system uses x-vectors as front-end representation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker diarisation systems often cluster audio segments using speaker embeddings such as i-vectors and d-vectors. Since different types of embeddings are often complementary, this paper proposes a generic framework to improve performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Phil Woodland

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

This paper aims to improve the widely used deep speaker embedding x-vector model. We propose the following improvements: (1) a hybrid neural network structure using both time delay neural network (TDNN) and long short-term memory neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yun Tang , Guohong Ding , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) has recently shown promising results for speaker diarization on highly overlapped speech. However, the original model requires a fixed (and known) number of speakers, which limits its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Maokui He , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Jun Du , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

Our focus lies in developing an online speaker diarisation framework which demonstrates robust performance across diverse domains. In online speaker diarisation, outputs generated in real-time are irreversible, and a few misjudgements in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Youngki Kwon , Hee-Soo Heo , Bong-Jin Lee , You Jin Kim , Jee-weon Jung

The objective of this work is to train noise-robust speaker embeddings adapted for speaker diarisation. Speaker embeddings play a crucial role in the performance of diarisation systems, but they often capture spurious information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-04 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

This report details our submission to the CHiME-9 MCoRec Challenge on recognizing and clustering multiple concurrent natural conversations within indoor social settings. Unlike conventional meetings centered on a single shared topic, this…

In this report, we summarize the integrated multilingual audio processing pipeline developed by our team for the inaugural NCIIPC Startup India AI GRAND CHALLENGE, addressing Problem Statement 06: Language-Agnostic Speaker Identification…

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 novel speaker diarization system for streaming on-device applications. In this system, we use a transformer transducer to detect the speaker turns, represent each speaker turn by a speaker embedding, then cluster…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Wei Xia , Han Lu , Quan Wang , Anshuman Tripathi , Yiling Huang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno , Hasim Sak

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

In this work, we propose deep latent space clustering for speaker diarization using generative adversarial network (GAN) backprojection with the help of an encoder network. The proposed diarization system is trained jointly with GAN loss,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Tae Jin Park , So Hyun Kim , Catherine Lord , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

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 a semi-supervised training technique using pseudo-labeling for end-to-end neural diarization (EEND). The EEND system has shown promising performance compared with traditional clustering-based methods, especially in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Yuki Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola García , Kenji Nagamatsu

In this paper, we present the submitted system for the third DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKU-Duke-Lenovo team. Our system consists of several modules: voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Weiqing Wang , Qingjian Lin , Danwei Cai , Lin Yang , Ming Li

We propose a modified teacher-student training for the extraction of frame-wise speaker embeddings that allows for an effective diarization of meeting scenarios containing partially overlapping speech. To this end, a geodesic distance loss…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Overlapped speech is notoriously problematic for speaker diarization systems. Consequently, the use of speech separation has recently been proposed to improve their performance. Although promising, speech separation models struggle with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Elio Gruttadauria , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid