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Speaker Mask Transformer for Multi-talker Overlapped Speech Recognition

2023/12/18 by Peng Shen, Shen, Peng, Xugang Lu +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Speech and Audio Processing #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.10959

openalex publication_date 2023/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Multi-talker overlapped speech recognition remains a significant challenge, requiring not only speech recognition but also speaker diarization tasks to be addressed. In this paper, to better address these tasks, we first introduce speaker labels into an autoregressive transformer-based speech recognition model to support multi-speaker overlapped speech recognition. Then, to improve speaker diarization, we propose a novel speaker mask branch to detection the speech segments of individual speakers. With the proposed model, we can perform both speech recognition and speaker diarization tasks simultaneously using a single model. Experimental results on the LibriSpeech-based overlapped dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in both speech recognition and speaker diarization tasks, particularly enhancing the accuracy of speaker diarization in relatively complex multi-talker scenarios.

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