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Towards End-to-End Joint Speaker Diarization and Speech Recognition (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Instead of separate systems for typing words and labeling speakers, one model slides across the audio, writing each window's text, speaker turns, and voice prints. Grouping the voice prints links speakers across the whole recording, handling any length and speaker count in meeting recordings.

Abstract · One model to rule them all ? Towards End-to-End Joint Speaker Diarization and Speech Recognition

This paper presents a novel framework for joint speaker diarization (SD) and automatic speech recognition (ASR), named SLIDAR (sliding-window diarization-augmented recognition). SLIDAR can process arbitrary length inputs and can handle any number of speakers, effectively solving ``who spoke what, when'' concurrently. SLIDAR leverages a sliding window approach and consists of an end-to-end diarization-augmented speech transcription (E2E DAST) model which provides, locally, for each window: transcripts, diarization and speaker embeddings. The E2E DAST model is based on an encoder-decoder architecture and leverages recent techniques such as serialized output training and ``Whisper-style" prompting. The local outputs are then combined to get the final SD+ASR result by clustering the speaker embeddings to get global speaker identities. Experiments performed on monaural recordings from the AMI corpus confirm the effectiveness of the method in both close-talk and far-field speech scenarios.

Samuele Cornell, Jee-weon Jung, Shinji Watanabe, Stefano Squartini
arXiv:2310.01688 · eess.AS, cs.CL, cs.SD · submitted Oct 2, 2023
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