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End-to-End Neural Diarization with Vector Clustering is a powerful and practical approach to perform Speaker Diarization. Multiple enhancements have been proposed for the segmentation model of these pipelines, but their synergy had not been…

We propose an algorithm to denoise speakers from a single microphone in the presence of non-stationary and dynamic noise. Our approach is inspired by the recent success of neural network models separating speakers from other speakers and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Jeff Hetherly , Paul Gamble , Maria Barrios , Cory Stephenson , Karl Ni

Speaker clustering is the task of identifying the unique speakers in a set of audio recordings (each belonging to exactly one speaker) without knowing who and how many speakers are present in the entire data, which is essential for speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chaohao Lin , Xu Zheng , Kaida Wu , Peihao Xiang , Ou Bai

Recently several end-to-end speaker verification systems based on deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proposed. These systems have been proven to be competitive for text-dependent tasks as well as for text-independent tasks with short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Johan Rohdin , Anna Silnova , Mireia Diez , Oldrich Plchot , Pavel Matejka , Lukas Burget

The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) has improved tremendously due to the application of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite this progress, building a new ASR system remains a challenging task, requiring various resources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Yajie Miao , Mohammad Gowayyed , Florian Metze

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limited due to the scarcity of large-scale conversational data…

In this paper, different online speaker diarization systems are evaluated on the same hardware with the same test data with regard to their latency. The latency is the time span from audio input to the output of the corresponding speaker…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

In spite of the popularity of end-to-end diarization systems nowadays, modular systems comprised of voice activity detection (VAD), speaker embedding extraction plus clustering, and overlapped speech detection (OSD) plus handling still…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Petr Pálka , Federico Landini , Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Lukáš Burget

In this paper, we propose a fully supervised speaker diarization approach, named unbounded interleaved-state recurrent neural networks (UIS-RNN). Given extracted speaker-discriminative embeddings (a.k.a. d-vectors) from input utterances,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-20 Aonan Zhang , Quan Wang , Zhenyao Zhu , John Paisley , Chong Wang

We propose a new method for speaker diarization that can handle overlapping speech with 2+ people. Our method is based on compositional embeddings [1]: Like standard speaker embedding methods such as x-vector [2], compositional embedding…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zeqian Li , Jacob Whitehill

End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

In this paper, a novel method using 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D-CNN) architecture has been proposed for speaker verification in the text-independent setting. One of the main challenges is the creation of the speaker models. Most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Amirsina Torfi , Jeremy Dawson , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

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

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Weiqing Wang , Qingjian Lin , Ming Li

Data-driven models achieve successful results in Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). However, these models, which are often based on general acoustic features or end-to-end approaches, show poor performance when the testing set has a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Duowei Tang , Peter Kuppens , Lucca Geurts , Toon van Waterschoot

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

In this paper, we propose a new pooling method called spatial pyramid encoding (SPE) to generate speaker embeddings for text-independent speaker verification. We first partition the output feature maps from a deep residual network (ResNet)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Youngmoon Jung , Younggwan Kim , Hyungjun Lim , Yeunju Choi , Hoirin Kim

We analyze the impact of speaker adaptation in end-to-end automatic speech recognition models based on transformers and wav2vec 2.0 under different noise conditions. By including speaker embeddings obtained from x-vector and ECAPA-TDNN…

This work presents a framework based on feature disentanglement to learn speaker embeddings that are robust to environmental variations. Our framework utilises an auto-encoder as a disentangler, dividing the input speaker embedding into…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-21 KiHyun Nam , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Joon Son Chung

This paper presents an end-to-end text-independent speaker verification framework by jointly considering the speaker embedding (SE) network and automatic speech recognition (ASR) network. The SE network learns to output an embedding vector…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Sungrack Yun , Janghoon Cho , Jungyun Eum , Wonil Chang , Kyuwoong Hwang