I-vectors meet imitators: On vulnerability of speaker verification systems against voice mimicry

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 930-934

  Hautamäki, Rosa González ^a   Kinnunen, Tomi ^a   Hautamäki, Ville ^a   Leino, Timo ^b   Laukkanen, Anne Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Mimicry attack; Speaker recognition; Voice imitation

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION; FALSE ACCEPTANCE RATE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL - UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL; MIMICRY ATTACK; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906213805     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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