Influence of silence removal on speaker recognition based on short Polish sequences

This paper studies effectiveness of speaker identification based on short Polish sequences. The results have been got as a continuation of the experiments presented by the authors during the previous SPA conference. An impact of automatic removal of silence on the speaker recognition accuracy is considered. Several methods to detect the beginnings and ends of the words have been used. Experimental studies have been conducted in Matlab for a specially prepared database of short speech sequences in Polish.