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Data augmentation is conventionally used to inject robustness in Speaker Verification systems. Several recently organized challenges focus on handling novel acoustic environments. Deep learning based speech enhancement is a modern solution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Saurabh Kataria , Phani Sankar Nidadavolu , Jesús Villalba , Najim Dehak

Speaker embedding models that utilize neural networks to map utterances to a space where distances reflect similarity between speakers have driven recent progress in the speaker recognition task. However, there is still a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Jixuan Wang , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Marc Law , Frank Rudzicz , Michael Brudno

Despite speaker verification has achieved significant performance improvement with the development of deep neural networks, domain mismatch is still a challenging problem in this field. In this study, we propose a novel framework to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Mufan Sang , Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

Given the speech generation framework that represents the speaker attribute with an embedding vector, asynchronous voice anonymization can be achieved by modifying the speaker embedding derived from the original speech. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong Aik Lee , Zhengpeng Zha , Zhenhua Ling

Speaker embeddings extracted with deep 2D convolutional neural networks are typically modeled as projections of first and second order statistics of channel-frequency pairs onto a linear layer, using either average or attentive pooling…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Themos Stafylakis , Johan Rohdin , Lukas Burget

Model inversion (MI) attacks allow to reconstruct average per-class representations of a machine learning (ML) model's training data. It has been shown that in scenarios where each class corresponds to a different individual, such as face…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Karla Pizzi , Franziska Boenisch , Ugur Sahin , Konstantin Böttinger

Building multispeaker neural network-based text-to-speech synthesis systems commonly relies on the availability of large amounts of high quality recordings from each speaker and conditioning the training process on the speaker's identity or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Beata Lorincz , Adriana Stan , Mircea Giurgiu

To improve speaker verification in real scenarios with interference speakers, noise, and reverberation, we propose to bring together advancements made in multi-channel speech features. Specifically, we combine spectral, spatial, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Saurabh Kataria , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Dong Yu

The classical i-vectors and the latest end-to-end deep speaker embeddings are the two representative categories of utterance-level representations in automatic speaker verification systems. Traditionally, once i-vectors or deep speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-12 Weicheng Cai , Jinkun Chen , Ming Li

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…

The adoption of advanced deep learning architectures in stuttering detection (SD) tasks is challenging due to the limited size of the available datasets. To this end, this work introduces the application of speech embeddings extracted from…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md Sahidullah , Fabrice Hirsch , Slim Ouni

Neural TTS has shown it can generate high quality synthesized speech. In this paper, we investigate the multi-speaker latent space to improve neural TTS for adapting the system to new speakers with only several minutes of speech or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yan Deng , Lei He , Frank Soong

Current speaker recognition systems primarily rely on supervised approaches, constrained by the scale of labeled datasets. To boost the system performance, researchers leverage large pretrained models such as WavLM to transfer learned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Shuai Wang , Qibing Bai , Qi Liu , Jianwei Yu , Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

Learning a good speaker embedding is important for many automatic speaker recognition tasks, including verification, identification and diarization. The embeddings learned by softmax are not discriminative enough for open-set verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Zhiyong Chen , Zongze Ren , Shugong Xu

While speaker adaptation for end-to-end speech synthesis using speaker embeddings can produce good speaker similarity for speakers seen during training, there remains a gap for zero-shot adaptation to unseen speakers. We investigate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Erica Cooper , Cheng-I Lai , Yusuke Yasuda , Fuming Fang , Xin Wang , Nanxin Chen , Junichi Yamagishi

Speaker recognition, recognizing speaker identities based on voice alone, enables important downstream applications, such as personalization and authentication. Learning speaker representations, in the context of supervised learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Metehan Cekic , Ruirui Li , Zeya Chen , Yuguang Yang , Andreas Stolcke , Upamanyu Madhow

Personalized speech enhancement (PSE) methods typically rely on pre-trained speaker verification models or self-designed speaker encoders to extract target speaker clues, guiding the PSE model in isolating the desired speech. However, these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Ziling Huang , Haixin Guan , Haoran Wei , Yanhua Long

Speaker extraction aims to extract target speech signal from a multi-talker environment with interference speakers and surrounding noise, given the target speaker's reference information. Most speaker extraction systems achieve satisfactory…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Chengyun Deng , Shiqian Ma , Yi Zhang , Yongtao Sha , Hui Zhang , Hui Song , Xiangang Li

Speaker embeddings become growing popular in the text-independent speaker verification task. In this paper, we propose two improvements during the training stage. The improvements are both based on triplet cause the training stage and the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Zongze Ren , Zhiyong Chen , Shugong Xu