Wan, V. and Renals, S. (2005) Speaker verification using sequence discriminant support vector machines. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13 (2). pp. 203-210. ISSN 1063-6676
Abstract
This paper presents a text-independent speaker verification system using support vector machines (SVMs) with score-space kernels. Score-space kernels generalize Fisher kernels and are based on underlying generative models such as Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). This approach provides direct discrimination between whole sequences, in contrast with the frame-level approaches at the heart of most current systems. The resultant SVMs have a very high dimensionality since it is related to the number of parameters in the underlying generative model. To address problems that arise in the resultant optimization we introduce a technique called spherical normalization that preconditions the Hessian matrix. We have performed speaker verification experiments using the PolyVar database. The SVM system presented here reduces the relative error rates by 34% compared to a GMM likelihood ratio system.
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Keywords: | Fisher kernel, score-space kernel, speaker verification, support vector machine |
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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: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2005 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jun 2014 10:17 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSA.2004.841042 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/TSA.2004.841042 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:813 |