A speaker tracking system based on speaker turn detection for NIST evaluation

  • Authors:
  • J.-F. Bonastre;P. Delacourt;C. Fredouille;T. Merlin;C. Wellekens

  • Affiliations:
  • LIA/CERI, Avignon Univ., France;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '00 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A speaker tracking system (STS) is built by using successively a speaker change detector and a speaker verification system. The aim of the STS is to find in a conversation between several persons (some of them having already enrolled and other being totally unknown) target speakers chosen in a set of enrolled users. In a first step, speech is segmented into homogeneous segments containing only one speaker, without any use of a priori knowledge about speakers. Then, the resulting segments are checked to belong to one of the target speakers. The system has been used in a NIST evaluation test with satisfactory results.