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Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) is crucial for identifying target speaker segments in the mixture, yet its performance heavily depends on the quality of speaker embeddings. A key practical limitation is the short enrollment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Fuyuan Feng , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao , Longting Xu , Xiaofeng Mou , Yi Xu

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

In this paper, we present a conditional multitask learning method for end-to-end neural speaker diarization (EEND). The EEND system has shown promising performance compared with traditional clustering-based methods, especially in the case…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Yuki Takashima , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Paola García , Kenji Nagamatsu

Speaker embedding extractors significantly influence the performance of clustering-based speaker diarisation systems. Conventionally, only one embedding is extracted from each speech segment. However, because of the sliding window approach,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Hee-Soo Heo , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , You Jin Kim , Jee-weon Jung

Speaker verification has been studied mostly under the single-talker condition. It is adversely affected in the presence of interference speakers. Inspired by the study on target speaker extraction, e.g., SpEx, we propose a unified speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Chenglin Xu , Wei Rao , Jibin Wu , Haizhou Li

Speaker diarisation systems nowadays use embeddings generated from speech segments in a bottleneck layer, which are needed to be discriminative for unseen speakers. It is well-known that large-margin training can improve the generalisation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Yassir Fathullah , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Zero-shot speaker adaptation aims to clone an unseen speaker's voice without any adaptation time and parameters. Previous researches usually use a speaker encoder to extract a global fixed speaker embedding from reference speech, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yixuan Zhou , Changhe Song , Xiang Li , Luwen Zhang , Zhiyong Wu , Yanyao Bian , Dan Su , Helen Meng

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Usable speech criteria are proposed to extract minimally corrupted speech for speaker identification (SID) in co-channel speech. In co-channel speech, either speaker can randomly appear as the stronger speaker or the weaker one at a time.…

Sound · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Wajdi Ghezaiel , Amel Ben Slimane , Ezzedine Ben Braiek

Speaker identification in the household scenario (e.g., for smart speakers) is typically based on only a few enrollment utterances but a much larger set of unlabeled data, suggesting semisupervised learning to improve speaker profiles. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Long Chen , Venkatesh Ravichandran , Andreas Stolcke

Recently, hyperspherical embeddings have established themselves as a dominant technique for face and voice recognition. Specifically, Euclidean space vector embeddings are learned to encode person-specific information in their direction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Nikita Kuzmin , Igor Fedorov , Alexey Sholokhov

This paper presents a robust multi-channel speaker extraction algorithm designed to handle inaccuracies in reference information. While existing approaches often rely solely on either spatial or spectral cues to identify the target speaker,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aviad Eisenberg , Sharon Gannot , Shlomo E. Chazan

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

Recently, attention-based transformers have become a de facto standard in many deep learning applications including natural language processing, computer vision, signal processing, etc.. In this paper, we propose a transformer-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tathagata Bandyopadhyay

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

Recent speaker diarisation systems often convert variable length speech segments into fixed-length vector representations for speaker clustering, which are known as speaker embeddings. In this paper, the content-aware speaker embeddings…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-15 G. Sun , D. Liu , C. Zhang , P. C. Woodland

Since diarization and source separation of meeting data are closely related tasks, we here propose an approach to perform the two objectives jointly. It builds upon the target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) diarization approach,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Christoph Boeddeker , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Gordon Wichern , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach , Jonathan Le Roux

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

End-to-end speaker diarization approaches have shown exceptional performance over the traditional modular approaches. To further improve the performance of the end-to-end speaker diarization for real speech recordings, recently works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chenyu Yang , Yu Wang

In the study of auditory attention, it has been revealed that there exists a robust correlation between attended speech and elicited neural responses, measurable through electroencephalography (EEG). Therefore, it is possible to use the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Dashanka De Silva , Siqi Cai , Saurav Pahuja , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li