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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

Current speaker diarization systems rely on an external voice activity detection model prior to speaker embedding extraction on the detected speech segments. In this paper, we establish that the attention system of a speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Jenthe Thienpondt , Kris Demuynck

In this paper, we propose a quality-aware end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization framework, which comprises three key techniques. First, our audio-visual model takes both audio and visual features as inputs, utilizing a series…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mao-Kui He , Jun Du , Shu-Tong Niu , Qing-Feng Liu , Chin-Hui Lee

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

This paper describes a system that generates speaker-annotated transcripts of meetings by using a microphone array and a 360-degree camera. The hallmark of the system is its ability to handle overlapped speech, which has been an unsolved…

Mismatching problem between the source and target noisy corpora severely hinder the practical use of the machine-learning-based voice activity detection (VAD). In this paper, we try to address this problem in the transfer learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Xiao-Lei Zhang , Ji Wu

Speaker diarization is the task of answering Who spoke and when? in an audio stream. Pipeline systems rely on speech segmentation to extract speakers' segments and achieve robust speaker diarization. This paper proposes a common framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Théo Mariotte , Anthony Larcher , Silvio Montrésor , Jean-Hugh Thomas

Speaker diarization, the process of segmenting an audio stream or transcribed speech content into homogenous partitions based on speaker identity, plays a crucial role in the interpretation and analysis of human speech. Most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Luyao Cheng , Hui Wang , Siqi Zheng , Yafeng Chen , Rongjie Huang , Qinglin Zhang , Qian Chen , Xihao Li

The task of voice activity detection (VAD) is an often required module in various speech processing, analysis and classification tasks. While state-of-the-art neural network based VADs can achieve great results, they often exceed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Sebastian Braun , Ivan Tashev

We introduce DIVE, an end-to-end speaker diarization algorithm. Our neural algorithm presents the diarization task as an iterative process: it repeatedly builds a representation for each speaker before predicting the voice activity of each…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Neil Zeghidour , Olivier Teboul , David Grangier

The objective of this work is to train noise-robust speaker embeddings adapted for speaker diarisation. Speaker embeddings play a crucial role in the performance of diarisation systems, but they often capture spurious information such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-04 You Jin Kim , Hee-Soo Heo , Jee-weon Jung , Youngki Kwon , Bong-Jin Lee , Joon Son Chung

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sometimes when it was spoken. Recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Li Li , Ming Cheng , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Juan Liu , Ming Li

Recently, hybrid systems of clustering and neural diarization models have been successfully applied in multi-party meeting analysis. However, current models always treat overlapped speaker diarization as a multi-label classification…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

Strong representations of target speakers can help extract important information about speakers and detect corresponding temporal regions in multi-speaker conversations. In this study, we propose a neural architecture that simultaneously…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chin-Yi Cheng , Hung-Shin Lee , Yu Tsao , Hsin-Min Wang

In noisy and reverberant environments, the performance of deep learning-based speech separation methods drops dramatically because previous methods are not designed and optimized for such situations. To address this issue, we propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhaoxi Mu , Xinyu Yang , Xiangyuan Yang , Wenjing Zhu

Target-speaker voice activity detection is currently a promising approach for speaker diarization in complex acoustic environments. This paper presents a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (Seq2Seq-TSVAD)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Ming Cheng , Weiqing Wang , Yucong Zhang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

In this paper, we present the speaker diarization system for the Multi-channel Multi-party Meeting Transcription Challenge (M2MeT) from team DKU_DukeECE. As the highly overlapped speech exists in the dataset, we employ an x-vector-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Weiqing Wang , Xiaoyi Qin , Ming Li

Deep neural network-based systems have significantly improved the performance of speaker diarization tasks. However, end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) systems often struggle to generalize to scenarios with an unseen number of speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

In the realm of digital audio processing, Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a pivotal role in distinguishing speech from non-speech elements, a task that becomes increasingly complex in noisy environments. This paper details the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Joshua Ball

Target-Speaker Voice Activity Detection (TS-VAD) utilizes a set of speaker profiles alongside an input audio signal to perform speaker diarization. While its superiority over conventional methods has been demonstrated, the method can suffer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Dongmei Wang , Xiong Xiao , Naoyuki Kanda , Midia Yousefi , Takuya Yoshioka , Jian Wu