Speaker diarization experiments for Romanian parliamentary speech

The speaker diarization system LIUM was developed for broadcast news data, but in this paper we employed it to evaluate the diarization performance over Romanian audio files of parliamentary speeches with different challenges (interruptions, noise, overlapping of speaker discourses etc.). More than 21 hours of speech belonging to few hundreds of speakers were used to evaluate the automatic process of segments assignation. The obtained results demonstrated that LIUM is proper even for parliamentary speeches with multiple challenges.