AN ONLINE SPEAKER TRACKING SYSTEM FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENTS

Maider Zamalloa, Mikel Penagarikano, Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes, Germán Bordel, Juan Pedro Uribe

2010

Abstract

Ambient intelligence is an interdisciplinary paradigm which envisages smart spaces that provide services and adapt transparently to the user. As the most natural interface for human interaction, speech can be exploited for adaptation purposes in such scenarios. Low latency is required, since adaptation must be continuous. Most speaker tracking approaches found in the literature work offline, fully processing pre-recorded audio files by a two-stage procedure: (1) performing acoustic segmentation and (2) assigning each segment a speaker label. In this work a real-time low-latency speaker tracking system is presented, which deals with continuous audio streams. Experimental results are reported on the AMI Corpus of meeting conversations, revealing the effectiveness of the proposed approach when compared to an offline speaker tracking system developed for reference.

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Zamalloa M., Penagarikano M., Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes L., Bordel G. and Pedro Uribe J. (2010). AN ONLINE SPEAKER TRACKING SYSTEM FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 343-349. DOI: 10.5220/0002734803430349


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@conference{icaart10,
author={Maider Zamalloa and Mikel Penagarikano and Luis Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes and Germán Bordel and Juan Pedro Uribe},
title={AN ONLINE SPEAKER TRACKING SYSTEM FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={343-349},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002734803430349},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - AN ONLINE SPEAKER TRACKING SYSTEM FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Zamalloa M.
AU - Penagarikano M.
AU - Javier Rodríguez-Fuentes L.
AU - Bordel G.
AU - Pedro Uribe J.
PY - 2010
SP - 343
EP - 349
DO - 10.5220/0002734803430349