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Area of Science:

  • Speech Processing
  • Signal Analysis
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Speaker segmentation is crucial for various audio analysis tasks like speech recognition and speaker diarization.
  • Accurate detection of speaker change points in multi-speaker recordings remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a new speaker segmentation system for multi-speaker audio.
  • To improve the accuracy of detecting speaker change points using novel feature extraction and distance metric algorithms.

Main Methods:

  • Audio pre-processing involved noise reduction, speech compression using Discrete Wavelet Transform (Daubechies wavelet 'db40'), and framing.
  • Feature extraction was performed using pyknogram and nonlinear energy operator (NEO).
  • Speaker change points were detected by applying dissimilarity measures (Bayesian Information Criteria, Kullback Leibler Divergence, T-test, and a proposed algorithm) to frame features within a sliding window.

Main Results:

  • The proposed distance metric combined with the pyknogram feature achieved the highest accuracy of 99.34%.
  • Performance was evaluated using Recall, Precision, and F-measure, demonstrating the superiority of the proposed method over standard algorithms.
  • The system effectively identified speaker boundaries in multi-speaker audio recordings.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed speaker segmentation system, utilizing pyknogram features and a novel distance metric, significantly enhances the accuracy of speaker change point detection.
  • This approach offers a robust solution for multi-speaker audio segmentation, outperforming established methods like BIC, KLD, and T-test.