openFEAT: Improving Speaker Identification by Open-set Few-shot Embedding Adaptation with Transformer
Abstract
Household speaker identification with few enrollment utterances is an important yet challenging problem, especially when household members share similar voice characteristics and room acoustics. A common embedding space learned from a large number of speakers is not universally applicable for the optimal identification of every speaker in a household. In this work, we first formulate household speaker identification as a few-shot open-set recognition task and then propose a novel embedding adaptation framework to adapt speaker representations from the given universal embedding space to a household-specific embedding space using a set-to-set function, yielding better household speaker identification performance. With our algorithm, Open-set Few-shot Embedding Adaptation with Transformer (openFEAT), we observe that the speaker identification equal error rate (IEER) on simulated households with 2 to 7 hard-to-discriminate speakers is reduced by 23% to 31% relative.
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@article{arxiv.2202.12349,
title = {openFEAT: Improving Speaker Identification by Open-set Few-shot Embedding Adaptation with Transformer},
author = {Kishan K C and Zhenning Tan and Long Chen and Minho Jin and Eunjung Han and Andreas Stolcke and Chul Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12349},
year = {2024}
}
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To appear in Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2022