Nik Vaessen David A. van Leeuwen

Abstract
This paper explores applying the wav2vec2 framework to speaker recognition instead of speech recognition. We study the effectiveness of the pre-trained weights on the speaker recognition task, and how to pool the wav2vec2 output sequence into a fixed-length speaker embedding. To adapt the framework to speaker recognition, we propose a single-utterance classification variant with CE or AAM softmax loss, and an utterance-pair classification variant with BCE loss. Our best performing variant, w2v2-aam, achieves a 1.88% EER on the extended voxceleb1 test set compared to 1.69% EER with an ECAPA-TDNN baseline. Code is available at https://github.com/nikvaessen/w2v2-speaker.
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Methodology | Metrics |
|---|---|---|
| speaker-recognition-on-voxceleb1 | w2v2-aam | EER: 1.88 |
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