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Learning robust speaker representations under noisy conditions presents significant challenges, which requires careful handling of both discriminative and noise-invariant properties. In this work, we proposed an anchor-based stage-wise…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bin Gu , Lipeng Dai , Huipeng Du , Haitao Zhao , Jibo Wei

This paper investigates an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method for an unknown number of speakers. In contrast to the conventional cascaded approach to speaker diarization, EEND methods are better in terms of speaker overlap…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Yawen Xue , Paola Garcia

LSTM-based speaker verification usually uses a fixed-length local segment randomly truncated from an utterance to learn the utterance-level speaker embedding, while using the average embedding of all segments of a test utterance to verify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-05 Bin Liu , Shuai Nie , Yaping Zhang , Shan Liang , Wenju Liu

Overlapping speech diarization is always treated as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we reformulate this task as a single-label prediction problem by encoding the multi-speaker labels with power set. Specifically, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhihao Du , Shiliang Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Weilong Huang , Ming Lei

Using a Teacher-Student training approach we developed a speaker embedding extraction system that outputs embeddings at frame rate. Given this high temporal resolution and the fact that the student produces sensible speaker embeddings even…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Christoph Boeddeker , Cătălin Zorilă , Rama Doddipatla , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. This paper proposes a hierarchical network with transformer encoders and memory mechanism to address this problem. The proposed…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yanpei Shi , Mingjie Chen , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

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

This paper presents an experimental study on deep speaker embedding with an attention mechanism that has been found to be a powerful representation learning technique in speaker recognition. In this framework, an attention model works as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Qiongqiong Wang , Koji Okabe , Kong Aik Lee , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Takafumi Koshinaka

The spatial covariance matrix has been considered to be significant for beamformers. Standing upon the intersection of traditional beamformers and deep neural networks, we propose a causal neural beamformer paradigm called Embedding and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Andong Li , Wenzhe Liu , Chengshi Zheng , Xiaodong Li

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

End-to-end neural diarization (EEND) models offer significant improvements over traditional embedding-based Speaker Diarization (SD) approaches but falls short on generalizing to long-form audio with large number of speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Xiang Li , Vivek Govindan , Rohit Paturi , Sundararajan Srinivasan

In this paper, we propose an effective training strategy to ex-tract robust speaker representations from a speech signal. Oneof the key challenges in speaker recognition tasks is to learnlatent representations or embeddings containing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Yoohwan Kwon , Soo-Whan Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Incremental improvements in accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks are usually achieved through use of deeper and more complex models trained on larger datasets. However, enlarging dataset and models increases the computation and storage…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Mahdi Hajibabaei , Dengxin Dai

Traditional speech separation and speaker diarization approaches rely on prior knowledge of target speakers or a predetermined number of participants in audio signals. To address these limitations, recent advances focus on developing…

Identifying multiple speakers without knowing where a speaker's voice is in a recording is a challenging task. In this paper, a hierarchical attention network is proposed to solve a weakly labelled speaker identification problem. The use of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

In this paper, a hierarchical attention network to generate utterance-level embeddings (H-vectors) for speaker identification is proposed. Since different parts of an utterance may have different contributions to speaker identities, the use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

We address the problem of online localization and tracking of multiple moving speakers in reverberant environments. The paper has the following contributions. We use the direct-path relative transfer function (DP-RTF), an inter-channel…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xiaofei Li , Yutong Ban , Laurent Girin , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Radu Horaud

Recent progress on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) has enabled overlap-aware speaker diarization with a single neural network. This paper proposes to enhance EEND by using multi-channel signals from distributed microphones. We replace…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Shota Horiguchi , Yuki Takashima , Paola Garcia , Shinji Watanabe , Yohei Kawaguchi

Despite the significant improvements in speaker recognition enabled by deep neural networks, unsatisfactory performance persists under noisy environments. In this paper, we train the speaker embedding network to learn the "clean" embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Danwei Cai , Weicheng Cai , Ming Li

Speaker identification typically involves three stages. First, a front-end speaker embedding model is trained to embed utterance and speaker profiles. Second, a scoring function is applied between a runtime utterance and each speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Zhenning Tan , Yuguang Yang , Eunjung Han , Andreas Stolcke