arXiv:2601.03712eess.AS2026-01ACL被引 1

统一建模说话人与时间信息,提升多人对话识别准确率

TellWhisper: Tell Whisper Who Speaks When

论文配图:TellWhisper: Tell Whisper Who Speaks When
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  • 用时-说话人旋转位置编码联合建模说话人和时间信息
  • 在CHiME-6数据集上说话人识别准确率提升3.2个百分点
  • 适合需要精准区分多人对话的语音分析场景

多说话人自动语音识别(MASR)旨在从多说话人语音中预测“谁在何时说了什么”,是多用户对话理解的关键技术。然而,现有方法在处理“何时”和“谁”时通常分离建模:一些方法在编码前注入说话人提示(如说话人掩码),可能导致不可逆信息丢失;另一些则在编码后混合说话人后验概率,可能混淆声学内容与说话人身份。这种分离在快速交替发言和重叠语音下表现脆弱,常导致性能下降。为此,我们提出TellWhisper,一个在语音编码器内联合建模说话人身份与时间信息的统一框架。具体地,设计了TS-RoPE——一种时-说话人旋转位置编码:时间坐标来自帧索引,说话人坐标来自说话人活动与停顿提示。通过区域特定的旋转角度,模型显式捕捉每个说话人的连续性、说话人轮换过渡及状态动态,使注意力机制能同时关注“何时”与“谁”。此外,为估计帧级说话人活动,我们开发了Hyper-SD,将说话人分类置于双曲空间以增强类间分离并精炼说话人活动估计。大量实验验证了该方法的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-speaker automatic speech recognition (MASR) aims to predict ''who spoke when and what'' from multi-speaker speech, a key technology for multi-party dialogue understanding. However, most existing approaches decouple temporal modeling and speaker modeling when addressing ''when'' and ''who'': some inject speaker cues before encoding (e.g., speaker masking), which can cause irreversible information loss; others fuse identity by mixing speaker posteriors after encoding, which may entangle acoustic content with speaker identity. This separation is brittle under rapid turn-taking and overlapping speech, often leading to degraded performance. To address these limitations, we propose TellWhisper, a unified framework that jointly models speaker identity and temporal within the speech encoder. Specifically, we design TS-RoPE, a time-speaker rotary positional encoding: time coordinates are derived from frame indices, while speaker coordinates are derived from speaker activity and pause cues. By applying region-specific rotation angles, the model explicitly captures per-speaker continuity, speaker-turn transitions, and state dynamics, enabling the attention mechanism to simultaneously attend to ''when'' and ''who''. Moreover, to estimate frame-level speaker activity, we develop Hyper-SD, which casts speaker classification in hyperbolic space to enhance inter-class separation and refine speaker-activity estimates. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

语音识别多说话人联合建模

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