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Speaker Recognition With Random Digit Strings Using Uncertainty Normalized HMM-Based i-Vectors

MAGHSOODI, N. SAMETI, H. ZEINALI, H. STAFYLAKIS, T.

Original Title

Speaker Recognition With Random Digit Strings Using Uncertainty Normalized HMM-Based i-Vectors

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this paper, we combine Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with i-vector extractors to address the problem of text-dependent speaker recognition with random digit strings. We employ digit-specific HMMs to segment the utterances into digits, to perform frame alignment to HMM states and to extract Baum-Welch statistics. By making use of the natural partition of input features into digits, we train digit-specific i-vector extractors on top of each HMM and we extract well-localized i-vectors, each modelling merely the phonetic content corresponding to a single digit. We then examine ways to perform channel and uncertainty compensation, and we propose a novel method for using the uncertainty in the i-vector estimates. The experiments on RSR2015 part III show that the proposed method attains 1.52% and 1.77% Equal Error Rate (EER) for male and female respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art methods such as x-vectors, trained on vast amounts of data. Furthermore, these results are attained by a single system trained entirely on RSR2015, and by a simple score-normalized cosine distance. Moreover, we show that the omission of channel compensation yields only a minor degradation in performance, meaning that the system attains state-of-the-art results even without recordings from multiple handsets per speaker for training or enrolment. Similar conclusions are drawn from our experiments on the RedDots corpus, where the same method is evaluated on phrases. Finally, we report results with bottleneck features and show that further improvement is attained when fusing them with spectral features.

Keywords

text-dependent speaker verification, uncertainty compensation, HMM, i-vector

Authors

MAGHSOODI, N.; SAMETI, H.; ZEINALI, H.; STAFYLAKIS, T.

Released

11. 7. 2019

ISBN

2329-9290

Periodical

IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Year of study

2019

Number

11

State

United States of America

Pages from

1815

Pages to

1825

Pages count

11

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8759963?source=authoralert

BibTex

@article{BUT159984,
  author="Nooshin {Maghsoodi} and Hossein {Sameti} and Hossein {Zeinali} and Themos {Stafylakis}",
  title="Speaker Recognition With Random Digit Strings Using Uncertainty Normalized HMM-Based i-Vectors",
  journal="IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING",
  year="2019",
  volume="2019",
  number="11",
  pages="1815--1825",
  doi="10.1109/TASLP.2019.2928143",
  issn="2329-9290",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8759963?source=authoralert"
}