Whisper Speaker Identification: Leveraging Pre-Trained Multilingual Transformers for Robust Speaker Embeddings
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| author | Emon, Jakaria Islam Salek, Md Abu Alam, Kazi Tamanna |
| author_facet | Emon, Jakaria Islam Salek, Md Abu Alam, Kazi Tamanna |
| contents | Speaker identification in multilingual settings presents unique challenges, particularly when conventional models are predominantly trained on English data. In this paper, we propose WSI (Whisper Speaker Identification), a framework that repurposes the encoder of the Whisper automatic speech recognition model pre trained on extensive multilingual data to generate robust speaker embeddings via a joint loss optimization strategy that leverages online hard triplet mining and self supervised Normalized Temperature-scaled Cross Entropy loss. By capitalizing on Whisper language-agnostic acoustic representations, our approach effectively distinguishes speakers across diverse languages and recording conditions. Extensive evaluations on multiple corpora, including VoxTube (multilingual), JVS (Japanese), CallHome (German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese), and Voxconverse (English), demonstrate that WSI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, namely Pyannote Embedding, ECAPA TDNN, and Xvector, in terms of lower equal error rates and higher AUC scores. These results validate our hypothesis that a multilingual pre-trained ASR encoder, combined with joint loss optimization, substantially improves speaker identification performance in non-English languages. |
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| spellingShingle | Whisper Speaker Identification: Leveraging Pre-Trained Multilingual Transformers for Robust Speaker Embeddings Emon, Jakaria Islam Salek, Md Abu Alam, Kazi Tamanna Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing I.2 Speaker identification in multilingual settings presents unique challenges, particularly when conventional models are predominantly trained on English data. In this paper, we propose WSI (Whisper Speaker Identification), a framework that repurposes the encoder of the Whisper automatic speech recognition model pre trained on extensive multilingual data to generate robust speaker embeddings via a joint loss optimization strategy that leverages online hard triplet mining and self supervised Normalized Temperature-scaled Cross Entropy loss. By capitalizing on Whisper language-agnostic acoustic representations, our approach effectively distinguishes speakers across diverse languages and recording conditions. Extensive evaluations on multiple corpora, including VoxTube (multilingual), JVS (Japanese), CallHome (German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese), and Voxconverse (English), demonstrate that WSI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, namely Pyannote Embedding, ECAPA TDNN, and Xvector, in terms of lower equal error rates and higher AUC scores. These results validate our hypothesis that a multilingual pre-trained ASR encoder, combined with joint loss optimization, substantially improves speaker identification performance in non-English languages. |
| title | Whisper Speaker Identification: Leveraging Pre-Trained Multilingual Transformers for Robust Speaker Embeddings |
| topic | Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing I.2 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10446 |