22 research outputs found

    Evaluation of preprocessors for neural network speaker verification

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    Utilización de la fase armónica en la detección de voz sintética.

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    156 p.Los sistemas de verificación de locutor (SV) tienen que enfrentarse a la posibilidad de ser atacados mediante técnicas de spoofing. Hoy en día, las tecnologías de conversión de voces y de síntesis de voz adaptada a locutor han avanzado lo suficiente para poder crear voces que sean capaces de engañar a un sistema SV. En esta tesis se propone un módulo de detección de habla sintética (SSD) que puede utilizarse como complemento a un sistema SV, pero que es capaz de funcionar de manera independiente. Lo conforma un clasificador basado en GMM, dotado de modelos de habla humana y sintética. Cada entrada se compara con ambos, y, si la diferencia de verosimilitudes supera un determinado umbral, se acepta como humana, rechazándose en caso contrario. El sistema desarrollado es independiente de locutor. Para la generación de modelos se utilizarán parámetros RPS. Se propone una técnica para reducir la complejidad del proceso de entrenamiento, evitando generar TTSs adaptados o un conversor de voz para cada locutor. Para ello, como la mayoría de los sistemas de adaptación o síntesis modernos hacen uso de vocoders, se propone transcodificar las señales humanas mediante vocoders para obtener de esta forma sus versiones sintéticas, con las que se generarán los modelos sintéticos del clasificador. Se demostrará que se pueden detectar señales sintéticas detectando que se crearon mediante un vocoder. El rendimiento del sistema prueba en diferentes condiciones: con las propias señales transcodificadas o con ataques TTS. Por último, se plantean estrategias para el entrenamiento de modelos para sistemas SSD

    Cognitive Reference Points. Semantics Beyond the Prototypes in Adjectives of Space and Colour

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    Psychologists have shown that reference-point reasoning is a ubiquitous cognitive phenomenon intrinsic to perception, categorisation, spatial orientation, social, organisational and marketing behaviour of human beings. Various cognitive tasks involve evoking a salient entity – called cognitive reference point – for establishing mental contact with less salient items. It is then reasonable to assume that language use also involves a lot of reference-point reasoning. However, linguistic aspects of this phenomenon have hardly been investigated. A welcome exception is Langacker’s reference-point model dealing with grammatical constructions and metonymy. This thesis elaborates the reference-point model by applying it to lexical semantics. The only reference point that has been quite intensely studied in lexical semantics is a prototype. By focusing on two adjectival groups (colour and size), the author demonstrates that a whole panoply of cognitive reference points are used to anchor conceptual specifications of lexical items, prototypes being only a special case of the reference-point mechanism. An important finding is that a word may trigger more than one reference point at a time. For example, dimensional adjectives may be interpreted vis-à-vis an average value, endpoints of the scale, prototypes and dimensions of the human body. Contextual variability is claimed to be related to various combinations of reference points, their relative salience and patterns of interaction.LEI Universiteit LeidenCausaliteit en subjectiviteit in een taalgebruiksbenadering van de grammatica van het Nederland

    GANDALF- A SWEDISH TELEPHONE SPEAKER VERIFICATION DATABASE

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    The Gandalf speech database has been designed for use in research on automatic speaker verification. 86 customer speakers have been recorded in up to 24 telephone calls per speaker during a period of up to 12 months, and an additional 100 impostor speakers are currently being recorded. In addition to speech files, Gandalf includes a relational database with a twofold function: it stores information on subjects and calls, and it is a tool for making quantitative and qualitative analyses of speaker verification test data. The customer speaker part of the database is described, and some of the motivation behind the design is given. A small speaker verification experiment is then described that demonstrates how test results can be qualitatively analyzed using the relational database. 1
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