Papers with speaker classification
Towards Neural Speaker Modeling in Multi-Party Conversation: The Task, Dataset, and Models (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for speaker modeling are based on hand-crafted statistics and ad hoc to a certain application. |
| Approach: | They propose to use speaker classification as a surrogate task for general speaker modeling and collect massive data to facilitate research in this direction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform the existing models and are feasible with speaker identity information. |
TellWhisper: Tell Whisper Who Speaks When (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches decouple temporal modeling and speaker modeling when addressing 'when' and 'who' . a new framework that couples temporal structure with speaker dynamics is proposed to address these limitations . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that couples temporal and speaker identity within the speech encoder . they propose TS-RoPE, a time-speaker rotary positional encoding that partitions Query/Key channels into temporal, speaker subspaces and applies region-specific rotations to align "when" and "who" cues in selfattention. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework couples temporal structure with speaker dynamics in speech encoder . it uses frame-level speaker activity to estimate speaker-activity estimates . |