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Speaker diarization consists of assigning speech signals to people engaged in a dialogue. An audio-visual spatiotemporal diarization model is proposed. The model is well suited for challenging scenarios that consist of several participants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Israel D. Gebru , Silèye Ba , Xiaofei Li , Radu Horaud

When dealing with overlapped speech, the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems substantially degrades as they are designed for single-talker speech. To enhance ASR performance in conversational or meeting environments,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Hassan Taherian , DeLiang Wang

Attractor-based end-to-end diarization is achieving comparable accuracy to the carefully tuned conventional clustering-based methods on challenging datasets. However, the main drawback is that it cannot deal with the case where the number…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Shota Horiguchi , Shinji Watanabe , Paola Garcia , Yawen Xue , Yuki Takashima , Yohei Kawaguchi

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

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 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

This paper investigates a method for simulating natural conversation in the model training of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND). Due to the lack of any annotated real conversational dataset, EEND is usually pretrained on a large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Natsuo Yamashita , Shota Horiguchi , Takeshi Homma

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 neural diarization (EEND) is nowadays one of the most prominent research topics in speaker diarization. EEND presents an attractive alternative to standard cascaded diarization systems since a single system is trained at once to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Federico Landini , Alicia Lozano-Diez , Mireia Diez , Lukáš Burget

Speaker diarization systems are challenged by a trade-off between the temporal resolution and the fidelity of the speaker representation. By obtaining a superior temporal resolution with an enhanced accuracy, a multi-scale approach is a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Tae Jin Park , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

Speaker diarization is a task to label audio or video recordings with classes that correspond to speaker identity, or in short, a task to identify "who spoke when". In the early years, speaker diarization algorithms were developed for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tae Jin Park , Naoyuki Kanda , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Kyu J. Han , Shinji Watanabe , Shrikanth Narayanan

While standard speaker diarization attempts to answer the question "who spoken when", most of relevant applications in reality are more interested in determining "who spoken what". Whether it is the conventional modularized approach or the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yiling Huang , Weiran Wang , Guanlong Zhao , Hank Liao , Wei Xia , Quan Wang

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

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

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) faces significant challenges in transcribing overlapped speech, a task critical for applications like meeting transcription and conversational analysis. While serialized output training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Yuke Lin , Ming Cheng , Ze Li , Beilong Tang , Ming Li

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

Most neural speaker diarization systems rely on sufficient manual training data labels, which are hard to collect under real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a semi-supervised speaker diarization system to utilize large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Shilong Wu , Jun Du , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Hang Chen , Haitao Tang , Chin-Hui Lee

Multi-talker overlapped speech poses a significant challenge for speech recognition and diarization. Recent research indicated that these two tasks are inter-dependent and complementary, motivating us to explore a unified modeling method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Lingwei Meng , Jiawen Kang , Mingyu Cui , Haibin Wu , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

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

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen