Best Paper Award at the prestigious "Odyssey 2024, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop"

We are proud to announce that Themos Stafylakis, Associate Professor by appointment, Department of Informatics, AUEB, received the Best Paper Award at the prestigious "Odyssey 2024, The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop" (https://www.odyssey2024.org/), which took place in Quebec City in June. The paper, titled "Do End-to-End Neural Diarization Attractors Need to Encode Speaker Characteristic Information?", is a collaboration between the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (Japan), Omilia - Conversational Intelligence (Greece), Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), and Brno University of Technology (Czechia). This paper sheds light on how transformer-based architectures encode speaker information when performing speaker diarization, which involves clustering potentially overlapping speech segments in dialogues into an unknown set of speakers. The paper and the code can be found in the following links:

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19325

Code: https://github.com/BUTSpeechFIT/EENDEDA_VIB