Shi, Y., Huang, Q. and Hain, T. orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-3464 (2020) Robust speaker recognition using speech enhancement and attention model. In: Lee, K.A., Koshinaka, T. and Shinoda, K., (eds.) Proceedings of the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020). The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020), 01-05 Nov 2020, Tokyo, Japan. ISCA - International Speech Communication Association , pp. 451-458.
Abstract
In this paper, a novel architecture for speaker recognition is proposed by cascading speech enhancement and speaker processing. Its aim is to improve speaker recognition performance when speech signals are corrupted by noise. Instead of individually processing speech enhancement and speaker recognition, the two modules are integrated into one framework by a joint optimisation using deep neural networks. Furthermore, to increase robustness against noise, a multi-stage attention mechanism is employed to highlight the speaker related features learned from context information in time and frequency domain. To evaluate speaker identification and verification performance of the proposed approach, we test it on the dataset of VoxCeleb1, one of mostly used benchmark datasets. Moreover, the robustness of our proposed approach is also tested on VoxCeleb1 data when being corrupted by three types of interferences, general noise, music, and babble, at different signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) levels. The obtained results show that the proposed approach using speech enhancement and multi-stage attention models outperforms two strong baselines not using them in most acoustic conditions in our experiments.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 ISCA. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Proc. The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2020). Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2022 07:58 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2022 09:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ISCA - International Speech Communication Association |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.21437/odyssey.2020-65 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189091 |