Assessing the Robustness of Spectral Clustering for Deep Speaker Diarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14286v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:49:54 GMT
• Title: Assessing the Robustness of Spectral Clustering for Deep Speaker Diarization
• Authors: Nikhil Raghav, Md Sahidullah,
• Abstract summary: This study thoroughly examines spectral clustering for both same-domain and cross-domain speaker diarization. We observe that the performance difference between two different domain conditions can be attributed to the role of spectral clustering.
• Score: 7.052822052763606
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Clustering speaker embeddings is crucial in speaker diarization but hasn't received as much focus as other components. Moreover, the robustness of speaker diarization across various datasets hasn't been explored when the development and evaluation data are from different domains. To bridge this gap, this study thoroughly examines spectral clustering for both same-domain and cross-domain speaker diarization. Our extensive experiments on two widely used corpora, AMI and DIHARD, reveal the performance trend of speaker diarization in the presence of domain mismatch. We observe that the performance difference between two different domain conditions can be attributed to the role of spectral clustering. In particular, keeping other modules unchanged, we show that differences in optimal tuning parameters as well as speaker count estimation originates due to the mismatch. This study opens several future directions for speaker diarization research.

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