Abstract

We design a framework for studying prelinguistic child voice from 3 to 24 months based on state-of-the-art algorithms in diarization. Our system consists of a time-invariant feature extractor, a context-dependent embedding generator, and a classifier. We study the effect of swapping out different components of the system, as well as changing loss function, to find the best performance. We also present a multiple-instance learning technique that allows us to pre-train our parameters on larger datasets with coarser segment boundary labels. We found that our best system achieved 43.8% DER on test dataset, compared to 55.4% DER achieved by LENA software. We also found that using convolutional feature extractor instead of logmel features significantly increases the performance of neural diarization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7178-7182
Number of pages5
JournalICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2021-June
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2021 - Virtual, Toronto, Canada
Duration: Jun 6 2021Jun 11 2021

Keywords

  • Child Speech
  • Language Development
  • Multiple Instance Learning
  • Speaker Diarization
  • Transfer Learning
  • Voice Activity Detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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