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Active speaker detection (ASD) is a multi-modal task that aims to identify who, if anyone, is speaking from a set of candidates. Current audio-visual approaches for ASD typically rely on visually pre-extracted face tracks (sequences of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Davide Berghi , Adrian Hilton , Philip J. B. Jackson

This paper describes our speaker diarization system submitted to the Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription (M2MeT) challenge, where Mandarin meeting data were recorded in multi-channel format for diarization and automatic speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Naijun Zheng , Na Li , Xixin Wu , Lingwei Meng , Jiawen Kang , Haibin Wu , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Helen Meng

This paper investigates the use of target-speaker automatic speech recognition (TS-ASR) for simultaneous speech recognition and speaker diarization of single-channel dialogue recordings. TS-ASR is a technique to automatically extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Overlapped speech detection (OSD) is critical for speech applications in scenario of multi-party conversion. Despite numerous research efforts and progresses, comparing with speech activity detection (VAD), OSD remains an open challenge and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Ziqing Du , Kai Liu , Xucheng Wan , Huan Zhou

In this paper, we show how to use audio to supervise the learning of active speaker detection in video. Voice Activity Detection (VAD) guides the learning of the vision-based classifier in a weakly supervised manner. The classifier uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Punarjay Chakravarty , Tinne Tuytelaars

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

Target speaker extraction (TSE) aims to extract the target speaker's voice from the input mixture. Previous studies have concentrated on high-overlapping scenarios. However, real-world applications usually meet more complex scenarios like…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-30 He Zhao , Hangting Chen , Jianwei Yu , Yuehai Wang

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

In active speaker detection (ASD), we would like to detect whether an on-screen person is speaking based on audio-visual cues. Previous studies have primarily focused on modeling audio-visual synchronization cue, which depends on the video…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Yidi Jiang , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Haizhou Li

In this paper, we propose a quality-aware end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization framework, which comprises three key techniques. First, our audio-visual model takes both audio and visual features as inputs, utilizing a series…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mao-Kui He , Jun Du , Shu-Tong Niu , Qing-Feng Liu , Chin-Hui Lee

Active speaker detection requires a solid integration of multi-modal cues. While individual modalities can approximate a solution, accurate predictions can only be achieved by explicitly fusing the audio and visual features and modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Juan León-Alcázar , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Ali Thabet , Bernard Ghanem

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

Target speech separation refers to extracting a target speaker's voice from an overlapped audio of simultaneous talkers. Previously the use of visual modality for target speech separation has demonstrated great potentials. This work…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Rongzhi Gu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu , Lianwu Chen , Yuexian Zou , Dong Yu

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is the process of automatically determining whether a person is speaking and identifying the timing of their speech in an audiovisual data. Traditionally, this task has been tackled by processing either audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Andrea Appiani , Cigdem Beyan

Target speaker extraction aims to extract the speech of a specific speaker from a multi-talker mixture as specified by an auxiliary reference. Most studies focus on the scenario where the target speech is highly overlapped with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Junjie Li , Ruijie Tao , Zexu Pan , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Haizhou Li

Audio-visual speaker diarization aims at detecting "who spoke when" using both auditory and visual signals. Existing audio-visual diarization datasets are mainly focused on indoor environments like meeting rooms or news studios, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Zhongcong Xu , Zeyang Song , Satoshi Tsutsui , Chao Feng , Mang Ye , Mike Zheng Shou

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

Voice activity detection (VAD) is essential in speech-based systems, but traditional methods detect only speech presence without identifying speakers. Target-speaker VAD (TS-VAD) extends this by detecting the speech of a known speaker using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Wen-Yung Wu , Pei-Chin Hsieh , Tai-Shih Chi

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) aims at detecting speech segments on an audio signal, which is a necessary first step for many today's speech based applications. Current state-of-the-art methods focus on training a neural network exploiting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Sina Alisamir , Fabien Ringeval , Francois Portet

The common target speech separation directly estimate the target source, ignoring the interrelationship between different speakers at each frame. We propose a multiple-target speech separation model (MTSS) to simultaneously extract each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Bang Zeng , Hongbing Suo , Yulong Wan , Ming Li