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This paper proposes a novel Sequence-to-Sequence Neural Diarization (S2SND) framework to perform online and offline speaker diarization. It is developed from the sequence-to-sequence architecture of our previous target-speaker voice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Ming Cheng , Yuke Lin , Ming Li

This paper presents a novel framework for joint speaker diarization (SD) and automatic speech recognition (ASR), named SLIDAR (sliding-window diarization-augmented recognition). SLIDAR can process arbitrary length inputs and can handle any…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Samuele Cornell , Jee-weon Jung , Shinji Watanabe , Stefano Squartini

End-to-end speech translation (ST) for conversation recordings involves several under-explored challenges such as speaker diarization (SD) without accurate word time stamps and handling of overlapping speech in a streaming fashion. In this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Mu Yang , Naoyuki Kanda , Xiaofei Wang , Junkun Chen , Peidong Wang , Jian Xue , Jinyu Li , Takuya Yoshioka

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) aims to transcribe conversational speech involving multiple speakers, requiring the model to capture not only what was said, but also who said it and sometimes when it was spoken. Recent…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Li Li , Ming Cheng , Weixin Zhu , Yannan Wang , Juan Liu , Ming Li

We present an end-to-end deep network model that performs meeting diarization from single-channel audio recordings. End-to-end diarization models have the advantage of handling speaker overlap and enabling straightforward handling of…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Soumi Maiti , Hakan Erdogan , Kevin Wilson , Scott Wisdom , Shinji Watanabe , John R. Hershey

Recent advances in speaker diarization exploit large pretrained foundation models, such as WavLM, to achieve state-of-the-art performance on multiple datasets. Systems like DiariZen leverage these rich single-channel representations, but…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Marc Deegen , Tobias Gburrek , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Thilo von Neumann , Jiangyu Han , Lukáš Burget , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Recently, we proposed a novel speaker diarization method called End-to-End-Neural-Diarization-vector clustering (EEND-vector clustering) that integrates clustering-based and end-to-end neural network-based diarization approaches into one…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Recent diarization technologies can be categorized into two approaches, i.e., clustering and end-to-end neural approaches, which have different pros and cons. The clustering-based approaches assign speaker labels to speech regions by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-08 Keisuke Kinoshita , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

Speaker diarization(SD) is a classic task in speech processing and is crucial in multi-party scenarios such as meetings and conversations. Current mainstream speaker diarization approaches consider acoustic information only, which result in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Luyao Cheng , Siqi Zheng , Zhang Qinglin , Hui Wang , Yafeng Chen , Qian Chen

We present a two-speaker automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that combines DiCoW -- a diarization-conditioned variant of Whisper -- with DiariZen, a diarization pipeline built on top of Pyannote. We first evaluate both systems in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Alexander Polok , Jiangyu Han , Dominik Klement , Samuele Cornell , Jan Černocký , Lukáš Burget

In this paper two different approaches to enhance the performance of the most challenging component of a Speaker Diarization system are presented, i.e. the speaker clustering part. A processing step is proposed enhancing the input features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Dimitrios Dimitriadis

This paper investigates the utilization of an end-to-end diarization model as post-processing of conventional clustering-based diarization. Clustering-based diarization methods partition frames into clusters of the number of speakers; thus,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Shota Horiguchi , Paola Garcia , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Laurent El Shafey , Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran

End-to-end diarization presents an attractive alternative to standard cascaded diarization systems because a single system can handle all aspects of the task at once. Many flavors of end-to-end models have been proposed but all of them…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Federico Landini , Mireia Diez , Alicia Lozano-Diez , Lukáš Burget

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

We performed an experimental review of current diarization systems for the conversational telephone speech (CTS) domain. In detail, we considered a total of eight different algorithms belonging to clustering-based, end-to-end neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Luca Serafini , Samuele Cornell , Giovanni Morrone , Enrico Zovato , Alessio Brutti , Stefano Squartini

In the task of speaker diarization, the number of small-scale meetings accounts for a large proportion. When microphone arrays are employed as a recording device, its spatial information is usually ignored by most researchers. In this…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yuxuan Du , Ruohua Zhou

As part of the MediSpeech project, we aim to develop a system that transcribes and diarizes Dutch conversations between doctors and patients in real-time. In this research (in-progress) we explore ways of efficiently combining Whisper with…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Mariia Zamyrova , Henk van den Heuvel

Speaker diarization answers the question "who spoke when" for an audio file. In some diarization scenarios, low latency is required for transcription. Speaker diarization with low latency is referred to as online speaker diarization. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Roman Aperdannier , Sigurd Schacht , Alexander Piazza

In automatic speech processing systems, speaker diarization is a crucial front-end component to separate segments from different speakers. Inspired by the recent success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in semantic inferencing, triplet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-07 Huan Song , Megan Willi , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Visar Berisha , Andreas Spanias