VoxLock: Target-Speaker Extraction for Voice Agents Without an Enrollment Step
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabVoxLock is a 27M-parameter streaming target-speaker extraction model for voice agents. It was fine-tuned from the public REAL-TSE model and works from a voice sample cut from the call itself, without an enrollment step. On Krisp's 265-recording benchmark it reaches 4.95% WER versus 23.21% unprocessed, and on 400 AMI meeting windows it cuts WER from 42.95% to 10.63%. The 8-bit model runs a live call on 77% of one CPU thread with 24 ms algorithmic latency. Model, code and per-file scores are released.
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VoxLock is a 27M-parameter streaming target-speaker extraction model for voice agents. It was fine-tuned from the public REAL-TSE model and works from a voice sample cut from the call itself, without an enrollment step. On Krisp's 265-recording benchmark it reaches 4.95% WER versus 23.21% unprocessed, and on 400 AMI meeting windows it cuts WER from 42.95% to 10.63%. The 8-bit model runs a live call on 77% of one CPU thread with 24 ms algorithmic latency. Model, code and per-file scores are released.
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- On Krisp's 265-recording benchmark, WER drops to 4.95% from 23.21% unprocessed.
- On 400 AMI meeting windows, WER falls from 42.95% to 10.63%.
- The 8-bit model runs a live call on 77% of one CPU thread with 24 ms algorithmic latency.
- Its WER is not significantly different from Krisp's best filters but is significantly lower than other systems tested.
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Voice agents often transcribe bystanders as well as the caller. A small, CPU-friendly isolator that needs no enrollment could make cleaner speech recognition practical in live calls.
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