Impressive progress has been recently witnessed on deep unsupervised clustering and feature disentanglement. In this paper, we propose a novel method top of one recent architecture with explanation Gaussian mixture model (GMM) membership, accompanied by GMM loss to enhance the clustering. The is optimized explicitly computed parameters under our coupled inspired framework. Specifically, takes a...

The Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) techniques are increasingly being used for both speaker identification and verification. Most of these models assume diagonal covariance matrices. Although empirically any distribution can be approximated with a diagonal GMM, a large number of mixture components are usually needed to obtain a good approximation. A consequence of using a large GMM is that its ...

The IEEE-ASSP Scene Classification challenge on user-generated content (UGC) aims to classify an audio recording that belongs to a specific scene such as busystreet, office or supermarket. The difficulty of scene content analysis on UGC lies in the lack of structure and acoustic variability of the data. The i-vector system is state-ofthe-art in Speaker Verification and Scene Detection, and is o...

The generalized method of moments (GMM) is a very popular estimation and inference procedure based on moment conditions. When likelihood-based methods are difficult to implement, one can often derive various moment conditions and construct the GMM objective function. However, minimization of the objective function in the GMM may be challenging, especially over a large parameter space. Due to th...

Quantifying how the spectral content of speech relates to changes in mental state may be crucial in building an objective speech-based depression classification system with clinical utility. This paper investigates the hypothesis that important depression based information can be captured within the covariance structure of a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) of recorded speech. Significant negative ...

In our previous work, we have proposed a speaker modeling technique using spectral and pitch features for text-independent speaker identification based on Multi-Space Probability Distribution Gaussian Mixture Models (MSD-GMMs). We have presented a maximum likelihood (ML) estimation procedure for the MSD-GMM parameters and demonstrated its high recognition performance. In this paper, we describe...

This paper describes experimental results of applying Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models (SGMMs) in two completely diverse acoustic scenarios: (a) for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) task over (well-resourced) English meeting data and, (b) for acoustic modeling of underresourced Afrikaans telephone data. In both cases, the performance of SGMM models is compared with a conve...

In the task of automatic speaker verification (ASV) it is well known that the duration of the speech signals is an important factor in the ultimate accuracy of the system. This paper deals with some of the aspects of adapting systems to work with limited amounts of data. First we highlight the importance of a well-tuned speech detection front-end when working with short durations. We consider a...

Using i-vector space features has been shown to be very successful in speaker and language identification. In this paper, we evaluate using the i-vector framework for emotion recognition from speech. Instead of using standard i-vector features, we propose to use concatenated emotion specific i-vector features. For each emotion category, a GMM supervector is generated via adaptation of the neura...

Gaussian 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 al...