Multistage speaker diarization of broadcast news

  • Authors:
  • C. Barras;Xuan Zhu;S. Meignier;J. -L. Gauvain

  • Affiliations:
  • Eng. Sci.-Nat. Center for Sci. Res., LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes recent advances in speaker diarization with a multistage segmentation and clustering system, which incorporates a speaker identification step. This system builds upon the baseline audio partitioner used in the LIMSI broadcast news transcription system. The baseline partitioner provides a high cluster purity, but has a tendency to split data from speakers with a large quantity of data into several segment clusters. Several improvements to the baseline system have been made. First, the iterative Gaussian mixture model (GMM) clustering has been replaced by a Bayesian information criterion (BIC) agglomerative clustering. Second, an additional clustering stage has been added, using a GMM-based speaker identification method. Finally, a post-processing stage refines the segment boundaries using the output of a transcription system. On the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) RT-04F and ESTER evaluation data, the multistage system reduces the speaker error by over 70% relative to the baseline system, and gives between 40% and 50% reduction relative to a single-stage BIC clustering system