How to Deal with Multiple-Targets in Speaker Identification Systems?

In open-set speaker identification systems a known phenomenon is that the false alarm (accept) error rate increases dramatically when increasing the number of registered speakers (models). In this paper, we demonstrate this phenomenon and suggest a solution using a new model-dependent score-normalization technique, called top-norm. The top-norm method was specifically developed to improve results of open-set speaker identification systems. Also, we suggest a score-normalization parameter adaptation technique. Experiments performed using speaker recognition corpora are described and demonstrate that the new method outperforms other normalization methods