Multiple hypothesis tracking for overlapping speaker segmentation
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Author(s)
Hogg, Aidan
Evers, christine
Naylor, Patrick
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Speaker segmentation is an essential part of any diarization system.Applications of diarization include tasks such as speaker indexing, improving automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance and making single speaker-based algorithms available for use in multi-speaker environments.This paper proposes a multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) method that exploits the harmonic structure associated with the pitch in voiced speech in order to segment the onsets and end-points of speech from multiple, overlapping speakers. The proposed method is evaluated against a segmentation system from the literature that uses a spectral representation and is based on employing bidirectional long short term memory networks (BLSTM). The proposed method is shown to achieve comparable performance for segmenting overlapping speakers only using the pitch harmonic information in the MHT framework.
Date Issued
2019-12-23
Date Acceptance
2019-07-15
Citation
2019 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2019
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2019 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Grant Number
EP/P001017/1
Source
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Acoustics
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
Speaker diarization
overlapping speech
speaker segmentation
pitch tracking
Kalman filter
DIARIZATION
ALGORITHM
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-10-20
Finish Date
2019-10-23
Coverage Spatial
New York, NY, U.S.A