diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3df48c7e..1c235711 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ umap-learn = "~=0.5"
 scikit-learn = "~=1.5"
 nltk = "~=3.8"
 vocos = "~=0.1"
+pyinterval = "^1.2.0"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev]
 optional = true
diff --git a/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/__init__.py b/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18dfa33b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+"""Top level file exposing speaker diarization utility functions."""
+
+from .utils import calculate_diarization_error_rate  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/utils.py b/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..581d9599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/senselab/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+"""Defines utility functions for evaluating speaker diarization results."""
+
+from typing import Dict, List
+
+from interval import interval as pyinterval
+
+from senselab.utils.data_structures.script_line import ScriptLine
+
+
+def calculate_diarization_error_rate(
+    inference: List[ScriptLine], ground_truth: List[ScriptLine], speaker_mapping: Dict[str, str], detailed: bool = False
+) -> Dict[str, float] | float:
+    """Computes the diarization error rate (DER).
+
+    Diarizztion error rate is the sum of the false alarms (when speech is detected but none is there),
+    missed detections (when speech is there but not detected), and speaker confusions (when speech is
+    attributed to the wrong speaker). For more details see:
+    https://docs.kolena.com/metrics/diarization-error-rate/
+
+    Args:
+        inference (List[ScriptLine]): the diarization generated as the result from a model
+        ground_truth (List[ScriptLine]): annotations that serve as the ground truth diarization
+        speaker_mapping (Dict[str, str]): mapping between speakers in inference and in ground_truth
+        detailed (bool): whether to include each component that contributed to the overall diarization error rate
+
+    Returns:
+        Either the diarization error rate (float) or a dictionary containing the diarization error rate and its
+          individual components. The individual components typically have units of seconds.
+    """
+    inference_interval = pyinterval()
+    ground_truth_interval = pyinterval()
+    speaker_inference_intervals = {}
+    speaker_ground_truth_intervals = {}
+
+    for line in inference:
+        assert line.speaker
+        inference_interval = inference_interval | pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+        if line.speaker not in speaker_inference_intervals:
+            speaker_inference_intervals[line.speaker] = pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+        else:
+            tmp = speaker_inference_intervals[line.speaker] | pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+            speaker_inference_intervals[line.speaker] = tmp
+
+    for line in ground_truth:
+        assert line.speaker
+        ground_truth_interval = ground_truth_interval | pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+        if line.speaker not in speaker_ground_truth_intervals:
+            speaker_ground_truth_intervals[line.speaker] = pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+        else:
+            tmp = speaker_ground_truth_intervals[line.speaker] | pyinterval[line.start, line.end]
+            speaker_ground_truth_intervals[line.speaker] = tmp
+
+    inference_interval_length = _interval_length(inference_interval)
+    ground_truth_length = _interval_length(ground_truth_interval)
+    confusion_rate = _speaker_confusion(
+        speaker_inference_intervals,
+        speaker_ground_truth_intervals,
+        ground_truth_interval,
+        speaker_mapping=speaker_mapping,
+    )
+    false_alarms = _false_alarms(inference_interval, ground_truth_interval, ground_truth_length)
+    missed_detections = _missed_detection(inference_interval, ground_truth_interval, inference_interval_length)
+
+    der = (confusion_rate + false_alarms + missed_detections) / ground_truth_length
+
+    if detailed:
+        return {
+            "false_alarms": false_alarms,
+            "missed_detections": missed_detections,
+            "speaker_confusions": confusion_rate,
+            "der": der,
+        }
+    else:
+        return der
+
+
+def _false_alarms(inference: pyinterval, ground_truth: pyinterval, ground_truth_length: float) -> float:
+    """Calculate the amount of false alarms.
+
+    Calculates the amount of false alarms comparing the total amount of time the union of each
+      inference and the ground truth adds.
+    """
+    false_alarms = 0.0
+    # print(ground_truth)
+    for interval in inference.components:
+        # print(interval)
+        false_alarms += _interval_length(interval | ground_truth) - ground_truth_length
+    return false_alarms
+
+
+def _missed_detection(inference: pyinterval, ground_truth: pyinterval, inference_length: float) -> float:
+    """Calculate amount of missed detections.
+
+    Calculates the amount of missed detections by comparing the total amount of time the union of each
+      ground truth segment and inferred diariazion adds.
+    """
+    missed_detections = 0.0
+    for interval in ground_truth.components:
+        missed_detections += _interval_length(interval | inference) - inference_length
+    return missed_detections
+
+
+def _speaker_confusion(
+    inferred_speaker_intervals: Dict[str, pyinterval],
+    true_speaker_intervals: Dict[str, pyinterval],
+    ground_truth: pyinterval,
+    speaker_mapping: Dict[str, str],
+) -> float:
+    """Calculate amount of speaker confusion.
+
+    Calculates the amount of speaker confusion by testing for each inferred speaker the amount of time
+      that is added when their inferred speech segments are intersected with their ground truth segments vs.
+      when they are intersected with the entire ground truth.
+    """
+    confusion = 0.0
+    for inferred_speaker, inferred_speaker_interval in inferred_speaker_intervals.items():
+        total_overlap = _interval_length(inferred_speaker_interval & ground_truth)
+        equivalent_true_speaker = speaker_mapping[inferred_speaker]
+        non_confused_overlap = 0.0
+        if equivalent_true_speaker:
+            ground_truth_speaker_interval = true_speaker_intervals[equivalent_true_speaker]
+            non_confused_overlap = _interval_length(inferred_speaker_interval & ground_truth_speaker_interval)
+        confusion += total_overlap - non_confused_overlap
+    return confusion
+
+
+def _interval_length(interval: pyinterval) -> float:
+    """Calculates the length in time that the interval represents."""
+    return sum([x[1] - x[0] for x in interval])
diff --git a/src/tests/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation_test.py b/src/tests/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d3dea2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tests/audio/tasks/speaker_diarization_evaluation_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+"""Testing functions for speaker diarization evaluations."""
+
+from senselab.audio.tasks.speaker_diarization_evaluation import calculate_diarization_error_rate
+from senselab.utils.data_structures.script_line import ScriptLine
+
+
+def test_diarization_error_rate_non_existent_speaker() -> None:
+    """Tests speaker diarization error rate when a non-existent speaker is found.
+
+    This example diarization can be found here:
+    https://docs.kolena.com/metrics/diarization-error-rate/#implementation-details
+    """
+    ground_truth = [
+        ScriptLine(start=0, end=10, speaker="A"),
+        ScriptLine(start=13, end=21, speaker="B"),
+        ScriptLine(start=24, end=32, speaker="A"),
+        ScriptLine(start=32, end=40, speaker="C"),
+    ]
+
+    inference = [
+        ScriptLine(start=2, end=14, speaker="A"),
+        ScriptLine(start=14, end=15, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=15, end=20, speaker="B"),
+        ScriptLine(start=23, end=36, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=36, end=40, speaker="D"),
+    ]
+
+    speaker_mapping = {"A": "A", "B": "B", "C": "C", "D": ""}
+
+    diarization = calculate_diarization_error_rate(inference, ground_truth, speaker_mapping, detailed=True)
+    assert isinstance(diarization, dict)
+    assert diarization["false_alarms"] == 4
+    assert diarization["missed_detections"] == 3
+    assert diarization["speaker_confusions"] == 14
+
+
+def test_diarization_error_rate_undetected_speaker() -> None:
+    """Tests speaker diarization error rate when a speaker goes undetected.
+
+    This example diarization can be found here:
+    https://docs.kolena.com/metrics/diarization-error-rate/#example
+    """
+    ground_truth = [
+        ScriptLine(start=0, end=5, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=5, end=9, speaker="D"),
+        ScriptLine(start=10, end=14, speaker="A"),
+        ScriptLine(start=14, end=15, speaker="D"),
+        ScriptLine(start=17, end=20, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=22, end=25, speaker="B"),
+    ]
+
+    inference = [
+        ScriptLine(start=0, end=8, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=11, end=15, speaker="A"),
+        ScriptLine(start=17, end=21, speaker="C"),
+        ScriptLine(start=23, end=25, speaker="B"),
+    ]
+
+    speaker_mapping = {"A": "A", "B": "B", "C": "C"}
+
+    diarization = calculate_diarization_error_rate(inference, ground_truth, speaker_mapping)
+    assert diarization == 0.4