A segment selection technique for speaker verification

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 753-761

  Nosratighods, Mohaddeseh ^a   Ambikairajah, Eliathamby ^a,c   Epps, Julien ^a   Carey, Michael John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Null hypothesis; Segment selection; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; EQUAL ERROR RATE; LIKELIHOOD SCORE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; RELATIVE ERROR RATES; SEGMENT SELECTION; SEGMENT-BASED; SHORT DURATIONS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPEECH SOUNDS; SPEECH UTTERANCE; TRAINING DATA;

ERROR DETECTION; PROBABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77953915852     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Atal B.S. Automatic recognition of speakers from their voices. Proc. IEEE 6 4 (1976) 460-475
2. Auckentaler R., Carey M., and Lloyd-Thomas H. Score normalization for text-independent speaker verification systems. Digital Signal Process. 10 1-3 (2000) 42-54
3. Auckenthaler, R., Parris, E., Carey, M., 1999. Improving a GMM speaker verification system by phonetic weighting. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 313-316.
4. Barras, C., Gauvain, J.-L., 2003. Feature and score. Normalization for speaker verification of cellular data. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 49-52.
5. Carey, M.J., Parris, E.S., Bennett, S.J., Lloyd-Thomas, H., 1997. A comparison of model estimation techniques for speaker verification. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 1083-1086.
6. Devore J.L. Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences (1995), Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
7. Gales M.J.F., and Young S.J. Robust continuous speech recognition using parallel model combination. IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech Signal Process. 4 5 (1996) 352-359
8. Gauvain J.-L., and Lee C.-H. Maximum a posteriori estimation for multivariate Gaussian mixture observations of Markov chain. IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech. Signal Process. 2 (1994) 291-298
9. Gauvain J.L., Lamel L., and Adda G. The LIMSI broadcast news transcription system. Speech Comm. 37 (2002) 89-108
10. Heck, L., Weintraub, M., 1997. Handset-dependent background models for robust text-independent speaker recognition. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 1071-1074.
11. Koolwaaij J., and Boves L. Local normalization and delayed decision making in speaker detection and tracking. Digital Signal Process. 10 1-3 (2000) 113-132
12. Li, K.P., Porter, J.E., 1988. Normalizations and selection of speech segments for speaker recognition scoring. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 595-598.
13. Malayath N., Hermansky H., Kajarekar S., and Yegnanarayana B. Data-driven temporal filters and alternatives to GMM in speaker verification. Digital Signal Process 10 (2000) 55-74
14. Martin, A.F., Przybocki, M.A., 2002. The NIST Speaker Evaluation Series. .
15. Nosratighods, M., Ambikairajah, E., Epps, J., Carey, M. (2006). A novel technique for the selection of speech segments for speaker verification. In: Internat. Conf. Speech Science and Technology, pp. 136-141. .
16. Nosratighods, M., Ambikairajah, E., Epps, J., Carey, M., 2007. P-value segment selection technique for speaker verification. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 269-272.
17. Papoulis, A., 1991. Probability, random variables, and stochastic process. In: McGraw-Hill, pp. 265-271 (Chapter 9).
18. Pelecanos, J., Povey, D., Ramaswamy, G., 2006. Secondary classification for GMM based speaker recognition. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 109-112.
19. Pelecanos, J., Sridharan, S., 2001. Feature warping for robust speaker verification. In: Speaker Odyssey - The Speaker Recognition Workshop, pp. 175-180.
20. Przybocki, M., Martin, A., 2004. NIST speaker recognition evaluation chronicles. In: Speaker Odyssey - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, pp. 15-22.
21. Reynolds, D., 1992. A Gaussian mixture modeling approach to text independent speaker identification.
22. Reynolds, D., 1994. Comparison of background normalization methods for text-independent speaker verification. In: Paper presented at the Eur. Conf. Speech Commun. Tech. (EUROSPEECH).
23. Rose, R., Fitzmaurice, J., Hofstetter, E., Reynolds, D., 1991. Robust speaker identification in noisy environments using noise adaptive speaker models. In: IEEE Internat. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 401-404.
24. Wackerly D., Mendelhall W., and Scheaffer R. Mathematical Statistics with Application (1996), Wadsworth Publishing Company