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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…

Obtaining high-quality speaker embeddings in multi-speaker conditions is crucial for many applications. A recently proposed guided speaker embedding framework, which utilizes speech activities of target and non-target speakers as clues,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shota Horiguchi , Takanori Ashihara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Naohiro Tawara

Speaker diarization is a task to label an audio or video recording with the identity of the speaker at each given time stamp. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework to conduct real-time multi-speaker diarization and…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Baihan Lin , Xinxin Zhang

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

This paper presents a computationally efficient and distributed speaker diarization framework for networked IoT-style audio devices. The work proposes a Federated Learning model which can identify the participants in a conversation without…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Amit Kumar Bhuyan , Hrishikesh Dutta , Subir Biswas

Despite the recent success of deep learning for many speech processing tasks, single-microphone, speaker-independent speech separation remains challenging for two main reasons. The first reason is the arbitrary order of the target and…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Yi Luo , Zhuo Chen , Nima Mesgarani

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.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Weiqing Wang , Qingjian Lin , Ming Li

Speaker segmentation consists in partitioning a conversation between one or more speakers into speaker turns. Usually addressed as the late combination of three sub-tasks (voice activity detection, speaker change detection, and overlapped…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Hervé Bredin , Antoine Laurent

Overlapping speech diarization has been traditionally treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding multiple binary labels into a single label with…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Zhijie Yan

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

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

Speaker diarization remains challenging due to the need for structured speaker representations, efficient modeling, and robustness to varying conditions. We propose a performant, compact diarization framework that integrates conformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-16 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods which learn representations of data without explicit supervision have gained popularity in speech-processing tasks, particularly for single-talker applications. However, these models often have…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Zili Huang , Desh Raj , Paola García , Sanjeev Khudanpur

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

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

In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

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

In speaker diarisation, speaker embedding extraction models often suffer from the mismatch between their training loss functions and the speaker clustering method. In this paper, we propose the method of spectral clustering-aware learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Evonne P. C. Lee , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

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