Effective speaker adaptations for speaker verification

Sungjoo Ahn, Sunmee Kang, Hanseok Ko

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Abstract

This paper concerns effective speaker adaptation methods to solve the over-training problem in speaker verification, which frequently occurs when modeling a speaker with sparse training data. While various speaker adaptations have already been applied to speech recognition, these methods have not yet been formally considered in speaker verification. This paper proposes speaker adaptation methods using a combination of maximum a posteriori (MAP) and maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptations, which are successfully used in speech recognition, and applies to speaker verification. Our aim is to remedy the small training data problem by investigating effective speaker adaptations for speaker modeling. Experimental results show that the speaker verification system using a weighted MAP and MLLR adaptation outperforms that of the conventional speaker models without adaptation by a factor of up to 5 times. From these results, we show that the speaker adaptation method achieves significantly better performance even when only small training data is available for speaker verification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSignal Processing Theory and Methods IIAudio and ElectroacusticsSpeech Processing I
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1081-1084
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)0780362934
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000
Event25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2000 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 2000 Jun 52000 Jun 9

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2000
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period00/6/500/6/9

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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