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Speaker Verification and Identification
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Author(s): Minho Jin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)and Chang D. Yoo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 26
Source title:
Behavioral Biometrics for Human Identification: Intelligent Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Liang Wang (University of Bath, United Kingdom)and Xin Geng (Southeast University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-725-6.ch013
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Abstract
A speaker recognition system verifies or identifies a speaker’s identity based on his/her voice. It is considered as one of the most convenient biometric characteristic for human machine communication. This chapter introduces several speaker recognition systems and examines their performances under various conditions. Speaker recognition can be classified into either speaker verification or speaker identification. Speaker verification aims to verify whether an input speech corresponds to a claimed identity, and speaker identification aims to identify an input speech by selecting one model from a set of enrolled speaker models. Both the speaker verification and identification system consist of three essential elements: feature extraction, speaker modeling, and matching. The feature extraction pertains to extracting essential features from an input speech for speaker recognition. The speaker modeling pertains to probabilistically modeling the feature of the enrolled speakers. The matching pertains to matching the input feature to various speaker models. Speaker modeling techniques including Gaussian mixture model (GMM), hidden Markov model (HMM), and phone n-grams are presented, and in this chapter, their performances are compared under various tasks. Several verification and identification experimental results presented in this chapter indicate that speaker recognition performances are highly dependent on the acoustical environment. A comparative study between human listeners and an automatic speaker verification system is presented, and it indicates that an automatic speaker verification system can outperform human listeners. The applications of speaker recognition are summarized, and finally various obstacles that must be overcome are discussed.
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