Thomas Thebaud, Junhyeok Lee, Laureano Moro-Velazquez +2eess.AS cs.AI
Speaker embeddings, or x-vectors, are widely used to represent speaker identity and speaker-related attributes, but existing embedding extractors are typically descriptive rather than generative: they map an observed speech segment to an x-vector, which is then used for downstream applications. We introduce ProPS, Prompted Profile Synthesis, a framework for generating distributions of speaker embeddings conditioned on natural language prompts such as "a thirties male speaker with an Indian accent". ProPS converts human-written profile descriptions into sentence embeddings and uses a mixture density network trained on a large-scale dataset to predict a Gaussian mixture model in the x-vector space. The model is trained by maximizing the likelihood that real speaker embeddings match the requested profile, and its generated distributions are evaluated by negative log-likelihood on held-out x-vectors and by attribute classification accuracies on sampled synthetic x-vectors. Experiments show that ProPS produces profile-conditioned distributions and generates x-vectors that preserve requested speaker attributes such as age, gender, accent, and prosodic characteristics. This design enables controllable speaker-profile synthesis for speech generation systems like Text-To-Speech (TTS) or Voice Conversion (VC) while anchoring generated distributions in observed speaker-embedding structure.
Muhammad Shakeel Akram, Amal Htait, Abdul Hamid Sadka +2cs.CL cs.AI eess.AS
Insurance fraud imposes substantial financial losses and operational inefficiencies, raising premiums and impacting trust among legitimate policyholders. Early detection at FNOL remains a persistent challenge. Existing approaches rely largely on private, text-only datasets, limiting progress on multimodal methods that integrate linguistic, behavioural, and speaker-based indicators. We introduce a synthetic multimodal framework that replicates FNOL conditions. It generates agent-customer dialogue transcripts and two-speaker audios, performs ASR and diarisation. Downstream modules combine NER, regex-based feature extraction, LLM-RAG retrieval, and speaker embeddings in a rule-based risk score to flag narrative reuse, structural inconsistencies, and cross-case voice repetition while balancing sensitivity and false positives. Dataset validation and component-level evaluations show stability and transfer potential, offering a reproducible baseline beyond text-only fraud detection.