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New framework uses acoustic features to classify speaker relationships

Researchers have developed DyShip, a new framework for classifying speaker relationships, such as familiarity and kinship, using acoustic features from dyadic conversations. The study compared five different speech representations, finding that spectral features achieved 87.81% accuracy for familiarity classification and WavLM reached 85.17% accuracy for kinship classification. The DyShip framework's classifiers outperformed previous human and audio language model scores on the same dataset, indicating the strong potential of acoustic cues for inferring conversational relationships. AI

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New framework uses acoustic features to classify speaker relationships

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Kieran Sturges, Thomas Thebaud, Yaohan Guan, Najim Dehak ·

    Dyship: Leveraging Acoustic Features For Speaker Relationship Classification From Dyadic Conversations

    arXiv:2611.14241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce DyShip, a framework for classifying speaker familiarity and kinship from dyadic conversations in the Seamless Interaction corpus. We compare five speech representations: spectrograms, MFCCs, self-supervised WavLM repr…