A sticky HDP-HMM with application to speaker diarization

Details A sticky HDP-HMM with application to speaker diarization A sticky HDP-HMM with application to speaker diarization

2009-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2592v4

Annals of Applied Statistics 2011, Vol. 5, No. 2A, 1020-1056

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS395 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Ins

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10.1214/10-AOAS395

We consider the problem of speaker diarization, the problem of segmenting an audio recording of a meeting into temporal segments corresponding to individual speakers. The problem is rendered particularly difficult by the fact that we are not allowed to assume knowledge of the number of people participating in the meeting. To address this problem, we take a Bayesian nonparametric approach to speaker diarization that builds on the hierarchical Dirichlet process hidden Markov model (HDP-HMM) of Teh et al. [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 101 (2006) 1566--1581]. Although the basic HDP-HMM tends to over-segment the audio data---creating redundant states and rapidly switching among them---we describe an augmented HDP-HMM that provides effective control over the switching rate. We also show that this augmentation makes it possible to treat emission distributions nonparametrically. To scale the resulting architecture to realistic diarization problems, we develop a sampling algorithm that employs a truncated approximation of the Dirichlet process to jointly resample the full state sequence, greatly improving mixing rates. Working with a benchmark NIST data set, we show that our Bayesian nonparametric architecture yields state-of-the-art speaker diarization results.

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