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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

Speaker diarization consists of assigning speech signals to people engaged in a dialogue. An audio-visual spatiotemporal diarization model is proposed. The model is well suited for challenging scenarios that consist of several participants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Israel D. Gebru , Silèye Ba , Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

Speaker diarization systems often struggle with high intrinsic intra-speaker variability, such as shifts in emotion, health, or content. This can cause segments from the same speaker to be misclassified as different individuals, for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Miseul Kim , Soo Jin Park , Kyungguen Byun , Hyeon-Kyeong Shin , Sunkuk Moon , Shuhua Zhang , Erik Visser

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end neural-network-based speaker diarization method. Unlike most existing methods, our proposed method does not have separate modules for extraction and clustering of speaker representations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

End-to-end neural diarization models have usually relied on a multilabel-classification formulation of the speaker diarization problem. Recently, we proposed a powerset multiclass formulation that has beaten the state-of-the-art on multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Alexis Plaquet , Hervé Bredin

In this paper, we carry out an analysis on the use of speech separation guided diarization (SSGD) in telephone conversations. SSGD performs diarization by separating the speakers signals and then applying voice activity detection on each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Giovanni Morrone , Samuele Cornell , Desh Raj , Luca Serafini , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for capturing contextual information in natural language processing tasks. We propose a novel approach to speaker diarization that incorporates the prowess of LLMs to exploit contextual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Tae Jin Park , Kunal Dhawan , Nithin Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam

Speech Foundation Models have gained significant attention recently. Prior works have shown that the fusion of representations from multiple layers of the same model or the fusion of multiple models can improve performance on downstream…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Yi-Jen Shih , David Harwath

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 introduce a sophisticated multi-speaker speech data simulator, specifically engineered to generate multi-speaker speech recordings. A notable feature of this simulator is its capacity to modulate the distribution of silence and overlap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Tae Jin Park , He Huang , Coleman Hooper , Nithin Koluguri , Kunal Dhawan , Ante Jukic , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias

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

Speaker diarization, the process of identifying "who spoke when" in audio recordings, is essential for understanding classroom dynamics. However, classroom settings present distinct challenges, including poor recording quality, high levels…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ali Sartaz Khan , Tolulope Ogunremi , Ahmed Adel Attia , Dorottya Demszky

Speaker Diarization is the problem of separating speakers in an audio. There could be any number of speakers and final result should state when speaker starts and ends. In this project, we analyze given audio file with 2 channels and 2…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Vishal Sharma , Zekun Zhang , Zachary Neubert , Curtis Dyreson

This paper presents a novel evaluation approach to text-based speaker diarization (SD), tackling the limitations of traditional metrics that do not account for any contextual information in text. Two new metrics are proposed, Text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chen Gong , Peilin Wu , Jinho D. Choi

We propose a novel approach to enable the use of large, single-speaker ASR models, such as Whisper, for target speaker ASR. The key claim of this method is that it is much easier to model relative differences among speakers by learning to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Alexander Polok , Dominik Klement , Matthew Wiesner , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

Benefiting from massive and diverse data sources, speech foundation models exhibit strong generalization and knowledge transfer capabilities to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, a limitation arises from their exclusive handling of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Pengcheng Guo , Xuankai Chang , Hang Lv , Shinji Watanabe , Lei Xie

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Speaker Diarization (SD) is a crucial component of modern end-to-end ASR pipelines. Traditional SD systems, which are typically audio-based and operate independently of ASR, often introduce speaker errors, particularly during speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Anurag Kumar , Rohit Paturi , Amber Afshan , Sundararajan Srinivasan

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