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Speaker extraction and diarization are two enabling techniques for real-world speech applications. Speaker extraction aims to extract a target speaker's voice from a speech mixture, while speaker diarization demarcates speech segments by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Junyi Ao , Mehmet Sinan Yıldırım , Ruijie Tao , Meng Ge , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian , Haizhou Li

Speaker diarization is an important pre-processing step for many speech applications, and it aims to solve the "who spoke when" problem. Although the standard diarization systems can achieve satisfactory results in various scenarios, they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Zili Huang , Shinji Watanabe , Yusuke Fujita , Paola Garcia , Yiwen Shao , Daniel Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

The conversation scenario is one of the most important and most challenging scenarios for speech processing technologies because people in conversation respond to each other in a casual style. Detecting the speech activities of each person…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Gaofeng Cheng , Yifan Chen , Runyan Yang , Qingxuan Li , Zehui Yang , Lingxuan Ye , Pengyuan Zhang , Qingqing Zhang , Lei Xie , Yanmin Qian , Kong Aik Lee , Yonghong Yan

We present a novel approach to Speaker Diarization (SD) by leveraging text-based methods focused on Sentence-level Speaker Change Detection within dialogues. Unlike audio-based SD systems, which are often challenged by audio quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Peilin Wu , Jinho D. Choi

Speaker diarization systems are challenged by a trade-off between the temporal resolution and the fidelity of the speaker representation. By obtaining a superior temporal resolution with an enhanced accuracy, a multi-scale approach is a way…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Tae Jin Park , Nithin Rao Koluguri , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end neural-network-based speaker diarization method. Unlike most existing methods, our proposed method does not have separate modules for extraction and clustering of speaker representations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-16 Yusuke Fujita , Naoyuki Kanda , Shota Horiguchi , Kenji Nagamatsu , Shinji Watanabe

Even state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems exhibit high variance in error rates across different datasets, representing numerous use cases and domains. Furthermore, comparing across systems requires careful application of best…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Eduardo Pacheco , Atila Orhon , Berkin Durmus , Blaise Munyampirwa , Andrey Leonov

Speaker diarization is an essential step for processing multi-speaker audio. Although an end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) method achieved state-of-the-art performance, it is limited to a fixed number of speakers. In this paper, we solve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Shota Horiguchi , Yawen Xue , Jing Shi , Kenji Nagamatsu

In multi-lingual societies, where multiple languages are spoken in a small geographic vicinity, informal conversations often involve mix of languages. Existing speech technologies may be inefficient in extracting information from such…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Shikha Baghel , Shreyas Ramoji , Somil Jain , Pratik Roy Chowdhuri , Prachi Singh , Deepu Vijayasenan , Sriram Ganapathy

In multilingual societies, social conversations often involve code-mixed speech. The current speech technology may not be well equipped to extract information from multi-lingual multi-speaker conversations. The DISPLACE challenge entails a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Shikha Baghel , Shreyas Ramoji , Sidharth , Ranjana H , Prachi Singh , Somil Jain , Pratik Roy Chowdhuri , Kaustubh Kulkarni , Swapnil Padhi , Deepu Vijayasenan , Sriram Ganapathy

Automatic speaker diarization techniques typically involve a two-stage processing approach where audio segments of fixed duration are converted to vector representations in the first stage. This is followed by an unsupervised clustering of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Prachi Singh , Sriram Ganapathy

This paper proposes a novel online speaker diarization algorithm based on a fully supervised self-attention mechanism (SA-EEND). Online diarization inherently presents a speaker's permutation problem due to the possibility to assign speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Yawen Xue , Shota Horiguchi , Yusuke Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Kenji Nagamatsu

End-to-end speaker diarization enables accurate overlap-aware diarization by jointly estimating multiple speakers' speech activities in parallel. This approach is data-hungry, requiring a large amount of labeled conversational data, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Shota Horiguchi , Atsushi Ando , Marc Delcroix , Naohiro Tawara

This paper proposes an online target speaker voice activity detection system for speaker diarization tasks, which does not require a priori knowledge from the clustering-based diarization system to obtain the target speaker embeddings. By…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Weiqing Wang , Ming Li

We propose a modular pipeline for the single-channel separation, recognition, and diarization of meeting-style recordings and evaluate it on the Libri-CSS dataset. Using a Continuous Speech Separation (CSS) system with a TF-GridNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Thilo von Neumann , Christoph Boeddeker , Tobias Cord-Landwehr , Marc Delcroix , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

In this paper, we present a novel framework that jointly performs three tasks: speaker diarization, speech separation, and speaker counting. Our proposed framework integrates speaker diarization based on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Soumi Maiti , Yushi Ueda , Shinji Watanabe , Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu

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

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

Since the first speech recognition systems were built more than 30 years ago, improvement in voice technology has enabled applications such as smart assistants and automated customer support. However, conversation intelligence of the future…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Desh Raj

We introduce 3D-Speaker-Toolkit, an open-source toolkit for multimodal speaker verification and diarization, designed for meeting the needs of academic researchers and industrial practitioners. The 3D-Speaker-Toolkit adeptly leverages the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Tinglong Zhu , Rongjie Huang , Chong Deng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang , Xihao Li