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We propose a new end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) system that is based on Conformer, a recently proposed neural architecture that combines convolutional mappings and Transformer to model both local and global dependencies in speech. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yi Chieh Liu , Eunjung Han , Chul Lee , Andreas Stolcke

In this paper, we propose a quality-aware end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization framework, which comprises three key techniques. First, our audio-visual model takes both audio and visual features as inputs, utilizing a series…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mao-Kui He , Jun Du , Shu-Tong Niu , Qing-Feng Liu , Chin-Hui Lee

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

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

There has been increasing interest in building multilingual foundation models for NLP and speech research. This paper examines how to expand the speech translation capability of these models with restricted data. Whisper, a speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Yassir Fathullah , Siyuan Tang , Mark Gales , Kate Knill

End-to-end speaker diarization approaches have shown exceptional performance over the traditional modular approaches. To further improve the performance of the end-to-end speaker diarization for real speech recordings, recently works have…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chenyu Yang , Yu Wang

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

We present a Conformer-based end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) model that uses both acoustic input and features derived from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. Two categories of features are explored: features derived directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Aparna Khare , Eunjung Han , Yuguang Yang , Andreas Stolcke

Recently, researchers have utilized neural network-based speaker embedding techniques in speaker-recognition tasks to identify speakers accurately. However, speaker-discriminative embeddings do not always represent speech features such as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Kwangje Baeg , Yeong-Gwan Kim , Young-Sub Han , Byoung-Ki Jeon

Speaker diarization is a task concerned with partitioning an audio recording by speaker identity. End-to-end neural diarization with encoder-decoder based attractor calculation (EEND-EDA) aims to solve this problem by directly outputting…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Samuel J. Broughton , Lahiru Samarakoon

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

Automating child speech analysis is crucial for applications such as neurocognitive assessments. Speaker diarization, which identifies ``who spoke when'', is an essential component of the automated analysis. However, publicly available…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Anfeng Xu , Tiantian Feng , Helen Tager-Flusberg , Catherine Lord , Shrikanth Narayanan

End-to-end neural diarization (EEND) is nowadays one of the most prominent research topics in speaker diarization. EEND presents an attractive alternative to standard cascaded diarization systems since a single system is trained at once to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Federico Landini , Alicia Lozano-Diez , Mireia Diez , Lukáš Burget

Generative models are a popular choice for adult-to-adult voice conversion (VC) because of their efficient way of modelling unlabelled data. To this point their usefulness in producing children speech and in particular adult to child VC has…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Protima Nomo Sudro , Anton Ragni , Thomas Hain

Since its introduction in 2019, the whole end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) line of work has been addressing speaker diarization as a frame-wise multi-label classification problem with permutation-invariant training. Despite EEND showing…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Alexis Plaquet , Hervé Bredin

This paper investigates a method for simulating natural conversation in the model training of end-to-end neural diarization (EEND). Due to the lack of any annotated real conversational dataset, EEND is usually pretrained on a large-scale…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Natsuo Yamashita , Shota Horiguchi , Takeshi Homma

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

Reliable transcription of child-adult conversations in clinical settings is crucial for diagnosing developmental disorders like Autism. Recent advances in deep learning and availability of large scale transcribed data has led to development…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Aditya Ashvin , Rimita Lahiri , Aditya Kommineni , Somer Bishop , Catherine Lord , Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri , Shrikanth Narayanan

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

Neural speaker embeddings trained using classification objectives have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in multiple applications. Typically, such embeddings are trained on an out-of-domain corpus on a single task e.g., speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Manoj Kumar , Tae Jin-Park , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan