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Speaker diarization is an essential step for processing multi-speaker audio. Although an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method achieved state-of-the-art performance, it is limited to a fixed number of speakers. In this paper, we solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Jing Shi , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker diarization is an important problem that is topical, and is especially useful as a preprocessor for conversational speech related applications. The objective of this paper is two-fold: (i) segment initialization by uniformly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Nauman Dawalatabad , Srikanth Madikeri , C. Chandra Sekhar , Hema A. Murthy

Deep speaker embeddings have become the leading method for encoding speaker identity in speaker recognition tasks. The embedding space should ideally capture the variations between all possible speakers, encoding the multiple acoustic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

This work presents a novel approach to leverage lexical information for speaker diarization. We introduce a speaker diarization system that can directly integrate lexical as well as acoustic information into a speaker clustering process.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tae Jin Park , Kyu Han , Ian Lane , Panayiotis Georgiou

Speaker diarization is connected to semantic segmentation in computer vision. Inspired from MaskFormer \cite{cheng2021per} which treats semantic segmentation as a set-prediction problem, we propose an end-to-end approach to predict a set of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yongquan Lai , Xin Tang , Yuanyuan Fu , Rui Fang

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

Automatic speaker diarization techniques typically involve a two-stage processing approach where audio segments of fixed duration are converted to vector representations in the first stage. This is followed by an unsupervised clustering of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Prachi Singh , Sriram Ganapathy

Speaker diarization accuracy can be affected by both acoustics and conversation characteristics. Determining the cause of diarization errors is difficult because speaker voice acoustics and conversation structure co-vary, and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Scott Seyfarth , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Katrin Kirchhoff

We propose an approach for simultaneous diarization and separation of meeting data. It consists of a complex Angular Central Gaussian Mixture Model (cACGMM) for speech source separation, and a von-Mises-Fisher Mixture Model (VMFMM) for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

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. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (S2SND) framework to perform online and offline speaker diarization. It is developed from the sequence-to-sequence architecture of our previous target-speaker voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Ming Cheng , Yuke Lin , Ming Li

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

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

Recent diarization technologies can be categorized into two approaches, i.e., clustering and end-to-end neural approaches, which have different pros and cons. The clustering-based approaches assign speaker labels to speech regions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words, but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

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

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

Speaker embedding extractors (EEs), which map input audio to a speaker discriminant latent space, are of paramount importance in speaker diarisation. However, there are several challenges when adopting EEs for diarisation, from which we…

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

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu