• 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