ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

Speaker segmentation and clustering in meetings

Qin Jin, Tanja Schultz

This paper describes the automatic speaker segmentation and clustering system for natural, multi-speaker meeting conversations based on multiple distant microphones. The system was evaluated in the NIST RT-04S Meeting Recognition Evaluation on the speaker diarization task and achieved speaker diarization performance of 28.17%. This system also aims to provide automatic speech segments and speaker grouping information for speech recognition, a necessary prerequisite for subsequent audio processing. A 44.5% word error rate was achieved for speech recognition.