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We introduce O-EENC-SD: an end-to-end online speaker diarization system based on EEND-EDA, featuring a novel RNN-based stitching mechanism for online prediction. In particular, we develop a novel centroid refinement decoder whose usefulness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Elio Gruttadauria , Mathieu Fontaine , Jonathan Le Roux , Slim Essid

Recent speaker diarization studies showed that integration of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) and clustering-based diarization is a promising approach for achieving state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. Such an approach first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Keisuke Kinoshita , Thilo von Neumann , Marc Delcroix , Christoph Boeddeker , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

This paper proposes a novel Attention-based Encoder-Decoder network for End-to-End Neural speaker Diarization (AED-EEND). In AED-EEND system, we incorporate the target speaker enrollment information used in target speaker voice activity…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

This paper details our speaker diarization system designed for multi-domain, multi-microphone casual conversations. The proposed diarization pipeline uses weighted prediction error (WPE)-based dereverberation as a front end, then applies…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Naohiro Tawara , Marc Delcroix , Atsushi Ando , Atsunori Ogawa

Recently, the end-to-end approach has been successfully applied to multi-speaker speech separation and recognition in both single-channel and multichannel conditions. However, severe performance degradation is still observed in the…

Speaker diarization is the task of partitioning audio into segments according to speaker identity, answering the question of "who spoke when" in multi-speaker conversation recordings. While diarization is an essential task for many…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Florian Grötschla , Cesare Blaser , Roger Wattenhofer

This report presents the system developed by the ABSP Laboratory team for the third DIHARD speech diarization challenge. Our main contribution in this work is to develop a simple and efficient solution for acoustic domain dependent speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-01-26 A Kishore Kumar , Shefali Waldekar , Goutam Saha , Md Sahidullah

This system description describes our submission system to the Third DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge. Besides the traditional clustering based system, the innovation of our system lies in the combination of various front-end techniques…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Yuxuan Wang , Maokui He , Shutong Niu , Lei Sun , Tian Gao , Xin Fang , Jia Pan , Jun Du , Chin-Hui Lee

In recent years, end-to-end approaches have made notable progress in addressing the challenge of speaker diarization, which involves segmenting and identifying speakers in multi-talker recordings. One such approach, Encoder-Decoder…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-09 David Palzer , Matthew Maciejewski , Eric Fosler-Lussier

In this paper, we present the submitted system for the second DIHARD Speech Diarization Challenge from the DKULENOVO team. Our diarization system includes multiple modules, namely voice activity detection (VAD), segmentation, speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Qingjian Lin , Weicheng Cai , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Jun Zhang , Ming Li

We propose a new speaker diarization system based on a recently introduced unsupervised clustering technique namely, generative adversarial network mixture model (GANMM). The proposed system uses x-vectors as front-end representation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Monisankha Pal , Manoj Kumar , Raghuveer Peri , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Speaker diarization (SD) is typically used with an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system to ascribe speaker labels to recognized words. The conventional approach reconciles outputs from independently optimized ASR and SD systems, where…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-20 Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Xiang Li

This paper presents a novel evaluation approach to text-based speaker diarization (SD), tackling the limitations of traditional metrics that do not account for any contextual information in text. Two new metrics are proposed, Text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chen Gong , Peilin Wu , Jinho D. Choi

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

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

Majority of speech signals across different scenarios are never available with well-defined audio segments containing only a single speaker. A typical conversation between two speakers consists of segments where their voices overlap,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-20 Siddharth S. Nijhawan , Homayoon Beigi

With the rise in multimedia content over the years, more variety is observed in the recording environments of audio. An audio processing system might benefit when it has a module to identify the acoustic domain at its front-end. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-08-09 A Kishore Kumar , Shefali Waldekar , Md Sahidullah , Goutam Saha

Speaker diarization is well studied for constrained audios but little explored for challenging in-the-wild videos, which have more speakers, shorter utterances, and inconsistent on-screen speakers. We address this gap by proposing an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Zexu Pan , Gordon Wichern , François G. Germain , Aswin Subramanian , Jonathan Le Roux

Speech applications dealing with conversations require not only recognizing the spoken words but also determining who spoke when. The task of assigning words to speakers is typically addressed by merging the outputs of two separate systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Grigor Kirakosyan , Davit Karamyan