Towards an objective comparison of feature extraction techniques for automatic speaker recognition systems

A common limitation of the previous comparative studies on speaker-features extraction techniques lies in the fact that the comparison is done independently of the used speaker modeling technique and its parameters. The aim of the present paper is twofold. Firstly, it aims to review the most significant advancements in feature extraction techniques used for automatic speaker recognition. Secondly, it seeks to evaluate and compare the currently dominant ones using an objective comparison methodology that overcomes the various limitations and drawbacks of the previous comparative studies. The results of the carried out experiments underlines the importance of the proposed comparison methodology.

Towards an Optimal Speaker Modeling in Speaker Verification Systems using Personalized Background Models

<p>This paper presents a novel speaker modeling approachfor speaker recognition systems. The basic idea of this approach consists of deriving the target speaker model from a personalized background model, composed only of the UBM Gaussian components which are really present in the speech of the target speaker. The motivation behind the derivation of speakers’ models from personalized background models is to exploit the observeddifference insome acoustic-classes between speakers, in order to improve the performance of speaker recognition systems.</p>The proposed approach was evaluatedfor speaker verification task using various amounts of training and testing speech data. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach is efficientin termsof both verification performance and computational cost during the testing phase of the system, compared to the traditional UBM based speaker recognition systems.