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Main Authors: Chen, Yu-Wen, Ho, William, Topaz, Maxim, Hirschberg, Julia, Kostic, Zoran
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15082
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  • Speaker diarization (SD) struggles in real-world scenarios due to dynamic environments and unknown speaker counts. SD is rarely used alone and is often paired with automatic speech recognition (ASR), but non-modular methods that jointly train on domain-specific data have limited flexibility. Moreover, many applications require true speaker identities rather than SD's pseudo labels. We propose a training-free modular pipeline combining off-the-shelf SD, ASR, and a large language model (LLM) to determine who spoke, what was said, and who they are. Using structured LLM prompting on reconciled SD and ASR outputs, our method leverages semantic continuity in conversational context to refine low-confidence speaker labels and assigns role identities while correcting split speakers. On a real-world patient-clinician dataset, our approach achieves a 29.7% relative error reduction over baseline reconciled SD and ASR. It enhances diarization performance without additional training and delivers a complete pipeline for SD, ASR, and speaker identity detection in practical applications.