Supervised online diarization with sample mean loss for multi-domain data

Recently, a fully supervised speaker diarization approach was proposed (UIS-RNN) which models speakers using multiple instances of a parameter-sharing recurrent neural network. In this paper we propose qualitative modifications to the model that significantly improve the learning efficiency and the overall diarization performance. In particular, we introduce a novel loss function, we called Sample Mean Loss and we present a better modelling of the speaker turn behaviour, by devising an analytical expression to compute the probability of a new speaker joining the conversation. In addition, we demonstrate that our model can be trained on fixed-length speech segments, removing the need for speaker change information in inference. Using x-vectors as input features, we evaluate our proposed approach on the multi-domain dataset employed in the DIHARD II challenge: our online method improves with respect to the original UIS-RNN and achieves similar performance to an offline agglomerative clustering baseline using PLDA scoring

Online End-to-End Neural Diarization with Speaker-Tracing Buffer

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 regions incorrectly across the recording. To circumvent this inconsistency, we proposed a speaker-tracing buffer mechanism that selects several input frames representing the speaker permutation information from previous chunks and stores them in a buffer. These buffered frames are stacked with the input frames in the current chunk and fed into a self-attention network. Our method ensures consistent diarization outputs across the buffer and the current chunk by checking the correlation between their corresponding outputs. Additionally, we trained SA-EEND with variable chunk-sizes to mitigate the mismatch between training and inference introduced by the speaker-tracing buffer mechanism. Experimental results, including online SA-EEND and variable chunk-size, achieved DERs of 12.54% for CALLHOME and 20.77% for CSJ with 1.4s actual latency.Comment: Accepted to SLT 202

INTERSPEECH 2010 GMM-UBM based open-set online speaker diarization

In this paper, we present an open-set online speaker diarization system. The system is based on Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), which are used as speaker models. The system starts with just 3 such models (one each for both genders and one for non-speech) and creates models for individual speakers not till the speakers occur. As more and more speakers appear, more models are created. Our system implicitly performs audio segmentation, speech/non-speech classification, gender recognition and speaker identification. The system is tested with the HUB4-1996 radio broadcast news database. Index Terms: Speaker diarization, Gaussian mixture models, open-set speaker recognitio