| Paper: | SP-L4.1 | ||
| Session: | Higher-Level Knowledge in Speaker Recognition | ||
| Time: | Wednesday, May 19, 15:30 - 15:50 | ||
| Presentation: | Lecture | ||
| Topic: | Speech Processing: Speaker Recognition | ||
| Title: | HIGH-LEVEL SPEAKER VERIFICATION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES | ||
| Authors: | William Campbell; MIT Lincoln Laboratory | ||
| Joseph Campbell; MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |||
| Doug Reynolds; MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |||
| Doug Jones; MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |||
| Timothy Leek; MIT Lincoln Laboratory | |||
| Abstract: | Recently, high-level features such as word idiolect, pronunciation, phone usage, prosody, etc., have been successfully used in speaker verification. The benefit of these features was demonstrated in the NIST extended data task for speaker verification; with enough conversational data, a recognition system can become "familiar" with a speaker and achieve excellent accuracy. Typically, high-level-feature recognition systems produce a sequence of symbols from the acoustic signal and then perform recognition using the frequency and co-occurrence of symbols. We propose the use of support vector machines for performing the speaker verification task from these symbol frequencies. Support vector machines have been applied to text classification problems with much success. A potential difficulty in applying these methods is that standard text classification methods tend to "smooth" frequencies which could potentially degrade speaker verification. We derive a new kernel based upon standard log likelihood ratio scoring to address limitations of text classification methods. We show that our methods achieve significant gains over standard methods for processing high-level features. | ||
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