Max-margin Metric Learning for Speaker Recognition

Probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) is a popular normalization approach for the i-vector model, and has delivered state-of-the-art performance in speaker recognition. A potential problem of the PLDA model, however, is that it essentially assumes Gaussian distributions over speaker vectors, which is not always true in practice. Additionally, the objective function is not directly related to the goal of the task, e.g., discriminating true speakers and imposters. In this paper, we propose a max-margin metric learning approach to solve the problems. It learns a linear transform with a criterion that the margin between target and imposter trials are maximized. Experiments conducted on the SRE08 core test show that compared to PLDA, the new approach can obtain comparable or even better performance, though the scoring is simply a cosine computation

I4U Submission to NIST SRE 2018: Leveraging from a Decade of Shared Experiences

The I4U consortium was established to facilitate a joint entry to NIST speaker recognition evaluations (SRE). The latest edition of such joint submission was in SRE 2018, in which the I4U submission was among the best-performing systems. SRE'18 also marks the 10-year anniversary of I4U consortium into NIST SRE series of evaluation. The primary objective of the current paper is to summarize the results and lessons learned based on the twelve sub-systems and their fusion submitted to SRE'18. It is also our intention to present a shared view on the advancements, progresses, and major paradigm shifts that we have witnessed as an SRE participant in the past decade from SRE'08 to SRE'18. In this regard, we have seen, among others, a paradigm shift from supervector representation to deep speaker embedding, and a switch of research challenge from channel compensation to domain adaptation.Comment: 5 page

A GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL-BASED SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEM

A human being has lot of unique features and one of them is voice. Speaker recognition is the use of a system to distinguish and identify a person from his/her vocal sound. A speaker recognition system (SRS) can be used as one of the authentication technique, in addition to the conventional authentication methods. This paper represents the overview of voice signal characteristics and speaker recognition techniques. It also discusses the advantages and problem of current SRS. The only biometric system that allows users to authenticate remotely is voice-based SRS, we are in the need of a robust SRS

Apprentissage discriminant des GMM à grande marge pour la vérification automatique du locuteur

National audienceGaussian mixture models (GMM) have been widely and successfully used in speaker recognition during the last decades. They are generally trained using the generative criterion of maximum likelihood estimation. In an earlier work, we proposed an algorithm for discriminative training of GMM with diagonal covariances under a large margin criterion. In this paper, we present a new version of this algorithm which has the major advantage of being computationally highly efficient. The resulting algorithm is thus well suited to handle large scale databases. To show the effectiveness of the new algorithm, we carry out a full NIST speaker verification task using NIST-SRE'2006 data. The results show that our system outperforms the baseline GMM, and with high computational efficiency

I4U Submission to NIST SRE 2018: Leveraging from a Decade of Shared Experiences

The I4U consortium was established to facilitate a joint entry to NIST speaker recognition evaluations (SRE). The latest edition of such joint submission was in SRE 2018, in which the I4U submission was among the best-performing systems. SRE'18 also marks the 10-year anniversary of I4U consortium into NIST SRE series of evaluation. The primary objective of the current paper is to summarize the results and lessons learned based on the twelve subsystems and their fusion submitted to SRE'18. It is also our intention to present a shared view on the advancements, progresses, and major paradigm shifts that we have witnessed as an SRE participant in the past decade from SRE'08 to SRE'18. In this regard, we have seen, among others , a paradigm shift from supervector representation to deep speaker embedding, and a switch of research challenge from channel compensation to domain adaptation

Optical music recognition of the singer using formant frequency estimation of vocal fold vibration and lip motion with interpolated GMM classifiers

The main work of this paper is to identify the musical genres of the singer by performing the optical detection of lip motion. Recently, optical music recognition has attracted much attention. Optical music recognition in this study is a type of automatic techniques in information engineering, which can be used to determine the musical style of the singer. This paper proposes a method for optical music recognition where acoustic formant analysis of both vocal fold vibration and lip motion are employed with interpolated Gaussian mixture model (GMM) estimation to perform musical genre classification of the singer. The developed approach for such classification application is called GMM-Formant. Since humming and voiced speech sounds cause periodic vibrations of the vocal folds and then the corresponding motion of the lip, the proposed GMM-Formant firstly operates to acquire the required formant information. Formant information is important acoustic feature data for recognition classification. The proposed GMM-Formant method then uses linear interpolation for combining GMM likelihood estimates and formant evaluation results appropriately. GMM-Formant will effectively adjust the estimated formant feature evaluation outcomes by referring to certain degree of the likelihood score derived from GMM calculations. The superiority and effectiveness of presented GMM-Formant are demonstrated by a series of experiments on musical genre classification of the singer

Bodo pametni nadzorni sistemi prisluhnili, razumeli in spregovorili slovensko?

Članek obravnava tehnologije govorjenega jezika, ki bi lahko omogočile t. i. pametnim nadzornim sistemom, da bi nekoč prisluhnili, razumeli in spregovorili slovensko. Tovrstni sistemi se z uporabo senzorjev in naprednih računalniških metod umetnega zaznavanja in razpoznavanja vzorcev do neke mere zavedajo okolja ter prisotnosti ljudi in drugih pojavov, ki bi lahko bili predmet varnostnega nadzora. Med tovrstne pojave spada tudi govor, ki lahko predstavlja ključni vir informacije pri določenih varnostnonadzornih okoliščinah. Tehnologije, ki omogočajo samodejno razpoznavanje in tvorjenje govora ter samodejno razpoznavanje govorcev in njihovega psihofizičnega stanja s pomočjo napredne računalniške analize govornega zvočnega signala, odpirajo povsem nove dimenzije razvoja pametnih nadzornih sistemov. Samodejno razpoznavanje varnostno sumljivih govornih izjav, kričanja in klicev na pomoč ter samodejno zaznavanje varnostno sumljivega psihofizičnega stanja govorcev tovrstnim sistemom doda pridih umetne inteligence. Članek predstavlja trenutno stanje razvoja omenjenih tehnologij in možnosti njihove uporabe za slovenski govorjeni jezik ter različne varnostnonadzorne scenarije uporabe tovrstnih sistemov. Naslovljena so tudi širša pravna in etična vprašanja, ki jih odpira razvoj in uporaba tovrstnih tehnologij. Govorni nadzor je namreč eno najbolj občutljivih vprašanj varstva zasebnosti