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Speaker diarization is one of the critical components of computational media intelligence as it enables a character-level analysis of story portrayals and media content understanding. Automated audio-based speaker diarization of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Rahul Sharma , Shrikanth Narayanan

In recent years, the remarkable advancements in deep neural networks have brought tremendous convenience. However, the training process of a highly effective model necessitates a substantial quantity of samples, which brings huge potential…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Zhisheng Zhang , Pengyang Huang

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the transcription of speech conversations with natural speaker overlap, from single channel speech recordings. The proposed model is a combination of a speaker diarization system and a hybrid…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Srikanth Raj Chetupalli , Sriram Ganapathy

The aim of this paper is to investigate the benefit of combining both language and acoustic modelling for speaker diarization. Although conventional systems only use acoustic features, in some scenarios linguistic data contain high…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Miquel India , Javier Hernando , José A. R. Fonollosa

Overlapping speech diarization is always treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding the multi-speaker labels with power set. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Ming Lei

Multi-speaker speech recognition of unsegmented recordings has diverse applications such as meeting transcription and automatic subtitle generation. With technical advances in systems dealing with speech separation, speaker diarization, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Desh Raj , Pavel Denisov , Zhuo Chen , Hakan Erdogan , Zili Huang , Maokui He , Shinji Watanabe , Jun Du , Takuya Yoshioka , Yi Luo , Naoyuki Kanda , Jinyu Li , Scott Wisdom , John R. Hershey

Replay speech attacks pose a significant threat to voice-controlled systems, especially in smart environments where voice assistants are widely deployed. While multi-channel audio offers spatial cues that can enhance replay detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Michael Neri , Tuomas Virtanen

Many approaches can derive information about a single speaker's identity from the speech by learning to recognize consistent characteristics of acoustic parameters. However, it is challenging to determine identity information when there are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Hyewon Han , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Speaker diarization, usually denoted as the ''who spoke when'' task, turns out to be particularly challenging when applied to fictional films, where many characters talk in various acoustic conditions (background music, sound effects...).…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Xavier Bost , Georges Linares

We proposed a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and recognition without prior registration and pretraining in a fully online learning setting. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

Recent breakthroughs in multi-talker ASR (MT-ASR) and speaker diarization (SD) rely on synthetic data to mitigate the scarcity of large-scale conversational recordings, yet the impact of specific simulation choices remains poorly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Alexander Polok , Ivan Medennikov , Jan Černocký , Shinji Watanabe , Lukáš Burget , Samuele Cornell

State-of-the-art speaker diarization systems utilize knowledge from external data, in the form of a pre-trained distance metric, to effectively determine relative speaker identities to unseen data. However, much of recent focus has been on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-02 Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Huan Song , Andreas Spanias

Speech separation with several speakers is a challenging task because of the non-stationarity of the speech and the strong signal similarity between interferent sources. Current state-of-the-art solutions can separate well the different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Nicolas Furnon , Romain Serizel , Irina Illina , Slim Essid

High-fidelity speech can be synthesized by end-to-end text-to-speech models in recent years. However, accessing and controlling speech attributes such as speaker identity, prosody, and emotion in a text-to-speech system remains a challenge.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zexin Cai , Chuxiong Zhang , Ming Li

This work presents a novel approach for speaker diarization to leverage lexical information provided by automatic speech recognition. We propose a speaker diarization system that can incorporate word-level speaker turn probabilities with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Tae Jin Park , Kyu J. Han , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

End-to-end neural speaker diarization systems are able to address the speaker diarization task while effectively handling speech overlap. This work explores the incorporation of speaker information embeddings into the end-to-end systems to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Juan Ignacio Alvarez-Trejos , Beltrán Labrador , Alicia Lozano-Diez

Sharing real-world speech utterances is key to the training and deployment of voice-based services. However, it also raises privacy risks as speech contains a wealth of personal data. Speaker anonymization aims to remove speaker information…

Nowadays, the large amount of audio-visual content available has fostered the need to develop new robust automatic speaker diarization systems to analyse and characterise it. This kind of system helps to reduce the cost of doing this…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Victoria Mingote , Alfonso Ortega , Antonio Miguel , Eduardo Lleida

Building a persona-based conversation agent is challenging owing to the lack of large amounts of speaker-specific conversation data for model training. This paper addresses the problem by proposing a multi-task learning approach to training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Yi Luan , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Michel Galley

Most approaches to multi-talker overlapped speech separation and recognition assume that the number of simultaneously active speakers is given, but in realistic situations, it is typically unknown. To cope with this, we extend an iterative…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Lukas Drude , Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach