Noise robust speaker verification via the fusion of SNR-independent and SNR-dependent PLDA
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چکیده
While i-vectors with probabilistic linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) can achieve state-of-the-art performance in speaker verification, the mismatch caused by acoustic noise remains a key factor affecting system performance. In this paper, a fusion system that combines a multi-condition SNR-independent PLDA model and a mixture of SNR-dependent PLDA models is proposed to make speaker verification systems more noise robust. First, the whole range of SNR that a verification system is expected to operate is divided into several narrow ranges. Then, a set of SNR-dependent PLDA models, one for each narrow SNR range, are trained. During verification, the SNR of the test utterance is used to determine which of the SNR-dependent PLDA models is used for scoring. To further enhance performance, the SNR-dependent and SNRindependent models are fused using linear and logistic regression fusion. The performance of the fusion system and the SNR-dependent system is evaluated on the NIST 2012 SRE for both noisy and clean conditions. Results show that a mixture of SNR-dependent PLDA models perform better in both clean and noisy conditions. It was also found that the fusion system is more robust than the conventional i-vector/PLDA systems under noisy conditions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- I. J. Speech Technology
دوره 18 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015