Title: Speaker Diarization using Deep Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Speaker Embeddings,
Abstract: In this paper we propose a new method of speaker diarization that employs a
deep learning architecture to learn speaker embeddings. In contrast to the
traditional approaches that build their speaker embeddings using manually
hand-crafted spectral features, we propose to train for this purpose a
recurrent convolutional neural network applied directly on magnitude
spectrograms. To compare our approach with the state of the art, we collect and
release for the public an additional dataset of over 6 hours of fully annotated
broadcast material. The results of our evaluation on the new dataset and three
other benchmark datasets show that our proposed method significantly
outperforms the competitors and reduces diarization error rate by a large
margin of over 30% with respect to the baseline.