Conversational Short-Phrase Speaker Diarization via Self-Adjusting Speech Segmentation and Embedding Extraction
Haitian Lu, Gaofeng Cheng, Yonghong Yan · IEEE Signal Processing Letters · 2024
Conversational short-phrase speaker diarization focuses on diarizing the phrases that are short in duration. Nonetheless, conventional speaker diarization systems fail to give enough importance to conversational short phrases. This letter proposed a novel speaker diarization system to address this issue. Firstly, we employ an RNN-T model for joint speech recognition and speaker change detection. The speech recognition results can be utilized directly in downstream tasks while the speaker change points serve as guidance for the following steps. Secondly, we introduce self-adjusting speech segmentation, which dynamically adjusts segment lengths based on the temporal distribution of speaker change points. Thirdly, we introduce self-adjusting embedding extraction, which employs speaker encoders trained under different speech duration conditions by projecting them to the same embedding space. Our method achieves a major reduction of Diarization Error Rate (DER) and Conversational Diarization Error Rate (CDER) on the MagicData-RAMC and Mixer 6 datasets.