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Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

In speaker diarisation, speaker embedding extraction models often suffer from the mismatch between their training loss functions and the speaker clustering method. In this paper, we propose the method of spectral clustering-aware learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Evonne P. C. Lee , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

We describe a system that generates speaker-annotated transcripts of meetings by using a virtual microphone array, a set of spatially distributed asynchronous recording devices such as laptops and mobile phones. The system is composed of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Takuya Yoshioka , Zhuo Chen , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , William Hinthorn , Xuedong Huang , Andreas Stolcke , Michael Zeng

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 recognition is a task of identifying persons from their voices. Recently, deep learning has dramatically revolutionized speaker recognition. However, there is lack of comprehensive reviews on the exciting progress. In this paper, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Zhongxin Bai , Xiao-Lei Zhang

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

This paper describes system setup of our submission to speaker diarisation track (Track 4) of VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2020. Our diarisation system consists of a well-trained neural network based speech enhancement model as…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Renyu Wang , Ruilin Tong , Yu Ting Yeung , Xiao Chen

Speech utterances recorded under differing conditions exhibit varying degrees of confidence in their embedding estimates, i.e., uncertainty, even if they are extracted using the same neural network. This paper aims to incorporate the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Qiongqiong Wang , Kong Aik Lee , Tianchi Liu

Speaker diarization (SD) struggles in real-world scenarios due to dynamic environments and unknown speaker counts. SD is rarely used alone and is often paired with automatic speech recognition (ASR), but non-modular methods that jointly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Yu-Wen Chen , William Ho , Maxim Topaz , Julia Hirschberg , Zoran Kostic

Speech separation has been extensively explored to tackle the cocktail party problem. However, these studies are still far from having enough generalization capabilities for real scenarios. In this work, we raise a common strategy named…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Bo Xu

Speaker diarization aims to segment audio recordings into regions corresponding to individual speakers. Although unsupervised speaker diarization is inherently challenging, the prospect of identifying speaker regions without pretraining or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Nikhil Raghav , Avisek Gupta , Swagatam Das , Md Sahidullah

In this paper, Whisper, a large-scale pre-trained model for automatic speech recognition, is proposed to apply to speaker verification. A partial multi-scale feature aggregation (PMFA) approach is proposed based on a subset of Whisper…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yiyang Zhao , Shuai Wang , Guangzhi Sun , Zehua Chen , Chao Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Thomas Fang Zheng

Speaker diarization answers the question "who spoke when" for an audio file. In some diarization scenarios, low latency is required for transcription. Speaker diarization with low latency is referred to as online speaker diarization. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

DIHARD III was the third in a series of speaker diarization challenges intended to improve the robustness of diarization systems to variability in recording equipment, noise conditions, and conversational domain. Speaker diarization was…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Neville Ryant , Prachi Singh , Venkat Krishnamohan , Rajat Varma , Kenneth Church , Christopher Cieri , Jun Du , Sriram Ganapathy , Mark Liberman

This paper proposes a guided speaker embedding extraction system, which extracts speaker embeddings of the target speaker using speech activities of target and interference speakers as clues. Several methods for long-form overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Shota Horiguchi , Takafumi Moriya , Atsushi Ando , Takanori Ashihara , Hiroshi Sato , Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix

In speaker anonymization, speech recordings are modified in a way that the identity of the speaker remains hidden. While this technology could help to protect the privacy of individuals around the globe, current research restricts this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sarina Meyer , Florian Lux , Ngoc Thang Vu

In an age of voice-enabled technology, voice anonymization offers a solution to protect people's privacy, provided these systems work equally well across subgroups. This study investigates bias in voice anonymization systems within the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Anna Leschanowsky , Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

Text mismatch between pre-collected data, either training data or enrollment data, and the actual test data can significantly hurt text-dependent speaker verification (SV) system performance. Although this problem can be solved by carefully…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Yexin Yang , Shuai Wang , Xun Gong , Yanmin Qian , Kai Yu

Automatic Speech Scoring (ASS) is the computer-assisted evaluation of a candidate's speaking proficiency in a language. ASS systems face many challenges like open grammar, variable pronunciations, and unstructured or semi-structured…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Yaman Kumar Singla , Avykat Gupta , Shaurya Bagga , Changyou Chen , Balaji Krishnamurthy , Rajiv Ratn Shah

Automating child speech analysis is crucial for applications such as neurocognitive assessments. Speaker diarization, which identifies ``who spoke when'', is an essential component of the automated analysis. However, publicly available…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan