Using the enrollment gallery as evidence: affine-invariant score calibration for target speaker tagging

Abstract: Target speaker tagging (TST) assigns enrolled speaker identities to diarized segments of multi-speaker recordings. The enrollment utterances of the other registered speakers are an attractive source of evidence for calibrating each verification decision: they share the deployment domain of the test material and require no external cohort set. We show, however, that they cannot serve as the cohort of conventional score normalization. Enrollments tend to cluster by recording session, so the per-speaker cohort statistics reflect enrollment proximity to the rest of the gallery rather than impostor behavior, and normalization then rejects entire speakers. We propose gallery affinity verification, a cohort-free calibration that exploits the gallery through two affine-invariant terms, score dispersion and enrollment-profile deviance, and is therefore immune to such per-speaker shifts. On a synthetic benchmark and an in-house meeting corpus, it improves tagging accuracy with and without conventional score normalization and adds further gains when combined with it.