Robust Speaker Clustering Using Affinity Propagation

  • Authors:
  • Xiang Zhang;Ping Lu;Hongbin Suo;Qingwei Zhao;Yonghong Yan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this letter, a recently proposed clustering algorithm named affinity propagation is introduced for the task of speaker clustering. This novel algorithm exhibits fast execution speed and finds clusters with low error. However, experiments show that the speaker purity of affinity propagation is not satisfying. Thus, we propose a hybrid approach that combines affinity propagation with agglomerative hierarchical clustering to improve the clustering performance. Experiments show that compared with traditional agglomerative hierarchical clustering, the hybrid method achieves better performance on the test corpora.