DocumentCode
1249155
Title
Effective speaker verification via dynamic mismatch compensation
Author
Pillay, Shamini ; Ariyaeeinia, Aladdin ; Sivakumaran, P. ; Pawlewski, M.
Author_Institution
Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Volume
1
Issue
2
fYear
2012
fDate
6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
130
Lastpage
135
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach to condition-adjusted T-norm (CT-Norm) for speaker verification under significant mismatched noise conditions. The study is motivated by the fact that, though the standard CT-Norm method offers enhanced accuracy under mismatched data conditions, its effectiveness reduces with the increased severity of such conditions. The proposed approach attempts to address this challenge by providing a more effective reduction of data mismatch through the incorporation of multi-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) universal background models (UBMs). The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through experiments based on examples of real-world noise. It is shown that the superiority of the approach over CT-Norm is particularly significant for such excessive levels of test data degradation considered in the study as 5 dB SNR and below. The paper provides a description of the characteristics of the proposed approach and details the experimental analysis of its effectiveness under different noise conditions.
Keywords
signal processing; speaker recognition; CT-norm method; SNR UBM; condition-adjusted T-norm; data mismatch reduction; dynamic mismatch compensation; mismatched data conditions; mismatched noise conditions; multisignal-to-noise ratio universal background models; real-world noise; speaker verification; test data degradation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Biometrics, IET
Publisher
iet
ISSN
2047-4938
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/iet-bmt.2012.0001
Filename
6247061
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