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In this research paper, we delve into the topics of Speech Diarization and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). Speech diarization involves the separation of individual speakers within an audio stream. By employing the ASR transcript, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-01 Aayush Kumar Sharma , Vineet Bhavikatti , Amogh Nidawani , Siddappaji , Sanath P , Dr Geetishree Mishra

Target-speaker voice activity detection (TS-VAD) has recently shown promising results for speaker diarization on highly overlapped speech. However, the original model requires a fixed (and known) number of speakers, which limits its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Maokui He , Desh Raj , Zili Huang , Jun Du , Zhuo Chen , Shinji Watanabe

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

This study investigates robust speaker localization for con-tinuous speech separation and speaker diarization, where we use speaker directions to group non-contiguous segments of the same speaker. Assuming that speakers do not move and are…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhong-Qiu Wang , DeLiang Wang

This paper describes a spatial-aware speaker diarization system for the multi-channel multi-party meeting. The diarization system obtains direction information of speaker by microphone array. Speaker spatial embedding is generated by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jie Wang , Yuji Liu , Binling Wang , Yiming Zhi , Song Li , Shipeng Xia , Jiayang Zhang , Feng Tong , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

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

This paper summarizes the JHU team's efforts in tracks 1 and 2 of the CHiME-6 challenge for distant multi-microphone conversational speech diarization and recognition in everyday home environments. We explore multi-array processing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ashish Arora , Desh Raj , Aswin Shanmugam Subramanian , Ke Li , Bar Ben-Yair , Matthew Maciejewski , Piotr Żelasko , Paola García , Shinji Watanabe , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in end-to-end speaker diarization and recognition. However, their speaker discriminability remains limited due to the scarcity of large-scale conversational data…

Conversational agents participating in multi-party interactions face significant challenges in dialogue state tracking, since the identity of the speaker adds significant contextual meaning. It is common to utilise diarisation models to…

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

This paper is the system description of the DKU-Tencent System for the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge 2022 (VoxSRC22). In this challenge, we focus on track1 and track3. For track1, multiple backbone networks are adopted to extract…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiaoyi Qin , Na Li , Yuke Lin , Yiwei Ding , Chao Weng , Dan Su , Ming Li

We provide the technical report for Ego4D audio-only diarization challenge in ECCV 2022. Speaker diarization takes the audio streams as input and outputs the homogeneous segments according to the speaker's identity. It aims to solve the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jiahao Wang , Guo Chen , Yin-Dong Zheng , Tong Lu

Speaker clustering is the task of forming speaker-specific groups based on a set of utterances. In this paper, we address this task by using Dominant Sets (DS). DS is a graph-based clustering algorithm with interesting properties that fits…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Feliks Hibraj , Sebastiano Vascon , Thilo Stadelmann , Marcello Pelillo

In the era of advanced artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, identifying emotions in spoken language is paramount. This research explores the integration of deep learning techniques in speech emotion recognition, offering…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hanan Hamza , Fiza Gafoor , Fathima Sithara , Gayathri Anil , V. S. Anoop

The most common approach to speaker diarization is clustering of speaker embeddings. However, the clustering-based approach has a number of problems; i.e., (i) it is not optimized to minimize diarization errors directly, (ii) it cannot…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Kenji Nagamatsu

Bayesian HMM clustering of x-vector sequences (VBx) has become a widely adopted diarization baseline model in publications and challenges. It uses an HMM to model speaker turns, a generatively trained probabilistic linear discriminant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Dominik Klement , Mireia Diez , Federico Landini , Lukáš Burget , Anna Silnova , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Speech foundation models, trained on vast datasets, have opened unique opportunities in addressing challenging low-resource speech understanding, such as child speech. In this work, we explore the capabilities of speech foundation models on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Kevin Huang , Tiantian Feng , Lue Shen , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker Diarization (SD) consists of splitting or segmenting an input audio burst according to speaker identities. In this paper, we focus on the crucial task of the SD problem which is the audio segmenting process and suggest a solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 O. H. Anidjar , C. Hajaj , A. Dvir , I. Gilad

Speech Large Language Models (Speech LLMs) have emerged as a crucial paradigm in recent years, extending the capabilities of traditional LLMs to speech tasks such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and spoken dialogue modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Phurich Saengthong , Boonnithi Jiaramaneepinit , Sheng Li , Manabu Okumura , Takahiro Shinozaki

We propose a diarization system, that estimates "who spoke when" based on spatial information, to be used as a front-end of a meeting transcription system running on the signals gathered from an acoustic sensor network (ASN). Although the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach