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End-to-End Supervised Hierarchical Graph Clustering for Speaker Diarization

23 Jan 2024arXiv:2401.12850archive 2025-07-28

Prachi Singh, Sriram Ganapathy

Speaker diarization, the task of segmenting an audio recording based on speaker identity, constitutes an important speech pre-processing step for several downstream applications.The conventional approach to diarization involves multiple steps of embedding extraction and clustering, which are often optimized in an isolated fashion. While end-to-end diarization systems attempt to learn a single model for the task, they are often cumbersome to train and require large supervised datasets. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end supervised hierarchical clustering algorithm based on graph neural networks (GNN), called End-to-end Supervised HierARchical Clustering (E-SHARC). The embedding extractor is initialized using a pre-trained x-vector model while the GNN model is trained initially using the x-vector embeddings from the pre-trained model. Finally, the E-SHARC model uses the front-end mel-filterbank features as input and jointly optimizes the embedding extractor and the GNN clustering module, performing representation learning, metric learning, and clustering with end-to-end optimization. Further, with additional inputs from an external overlap detector, the E-SHARC approach is capable of predicting the speakers in the overlapping speech regions. The experimental evaluation on benchmark datasets like AMI, Voxconverse and DISPLACE, illustrates that the proposed E-SHARC framework provides competitive diarization results using graph based clustering methods.

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