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Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persistent challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Chong Deng , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persisting challenge. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-28 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

Training robust speaker verification systems without speaker labels has long been a challenging task. Previous studies observed a large performance gap between self-supervised and fully supervised methods. In this paper, we apply a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen

In real application scenarios, it is often challenging to obtain a large amount of labeled data for speaker representation learning due to speaker privacy concerns. Self-supervised learning with no labels has become a more and more…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zhengyang Chen , Yao Qian , Bing Han , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Background noise considerably reduces the accuracy and reliability of speaker verification (SV) systems. These challenges can be addressed using a speech enhancement system as a front-end module. Recently, diffusion probabilistic models…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ju-ho Kim , Jungwoo Heo , Hyun-seo Shin , Chan-yeong Lim , Ha-Jin Yu

Recent advancements in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have shown promising results in Speaker Verification (SV). However, narrowing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. Several studies have observed that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Victor Miara , Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without speaker labels is still challenging and worthwhile to explore. In this study, we propose an effective self-supervised learning framework and a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Mufan Sang , Haoqi Li , Fang Liu , Andrew O. Arnold , Li Wan

Recent developments in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) have demonstrated significant potential for Speaker Verification (SV), but closing the performance gap with supervised systems remains an ongoing challenge. SSL frameworks rely on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

Deep speaker embedding has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition tasks. However, one potential issue with this approach is that the speaker vectors derived from deep embedding models tend to be non-Gaussian for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Yunqi Cai , Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

In this paper we propose and analyse a large margin fine-tuning strategy and a quality-aware score calibration in text-independent speaker verification. Large margin fine-tuning is a secondary training stage for DNN based speaker…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

This report describes the submission of the DKU-DukeECE team to the self-supervision speaker verification task of the 2021 VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC). Our method employs an iterative labeling framework to learn…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Danwei Cai , Ming Li

In this paper we describe the top-scoring IDLab submission for the text-independent task of the Short-duration Speaker Verification (SdSV) Challenge 2020. The main difficulty of the challenge exists in the large degree of varying phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Jenthe Thienpondt , Brecht Desplanques , Kris Demuynck

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) for speaker verification (SV) has drawn increasing interest recently due to its ability to exploit unlabeled data. Performing data augmentation on raw waveforms, such as adding noise or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Chong-Xin Gan , Man-Wai Mak , Weiwei Lin , Jen-Tzung Chien

In this paper, we propose an iterative framework for self-supervised speaker representation learning based on a deep neural network (DNN). The framework starts with training a self-supervision speaker embedding network by maximizing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Danwei Cai , Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

Deep speaker embedding extractors have already become new state-of-the-art systems in the speaker verification field. However, the problem of verification score calibration for such systems often remains out of focus. An irrelevant score…

The speech representations learned from large-scale unlabeled data have shown better generalizability than those from supervised learning and thus attract a lot of interest to be applied for various downstream tasks. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhengyang Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Yao Qian , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

With the continuous development of speech recognition technology, speaker verification (SV) has become an important method for identity authentication. Traditional SV methods rely on handcrafted feature extraction, while deep learning has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Zhaorui Sun , Yihao Chen , Jialong Wang , Minqiang Xu , Lei Fang , Sian Fang , Lin Liu

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has led to considerable progress in Speaker Verification (SV). The standard framework uses same-utterance positive sampling and data-augmentation to generate anchor-positive pairs of the same speaker. This is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Theo Lepage , Reda Dehak

State-of-the-art speaker verification systems are inherently dependent on some kind of human supervision as they are trained on massive amounts of labeled data. However, manually annotating utterances is slow, expensive and not scalable to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Théo Lepage , Réda Dehak

Automatic speaker verification task has made great achievements using deep learning approaches with the large-scale manually annotated dataset. However, it's very difficult and expensive to collect a large amount of well-labeled data for…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Bing Han , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian
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