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This work presents a novel framework based on feed-forward neural network for text-independent speaker classification and verification, two related systems of speaker recognition. With optimized features and model training, it achieves 100%…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Zhenhao Ge , Ananth N. Iyer , Srinath Cheluvaraja , Ram Sundaram , Aravind Ganapathiraju

Speaker verification is an established yet challenging task in speech processing and a very vibrant research area. Recent speaker verification (SV) systems rely on deep neural networks to extract high-level embeddings which are able to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Fei Tao , Gokhan Tur

Supervised speech enhancement relies on parallel databases of degraded speech signals and their clean reference signals during training. This setting prohibits the use of real-world degraded speech data that may better represent the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Yangyang Xia , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Creating Speaker Verification (SV) systems for classroom settings that are robust to classroom noises such as babble noise is crucial for the development of AI tools that assist educational environments. In this work, we study the efficacy…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Saba Tabatabaee , Jing Liu , Carol Espy-Wilson

Despite speaker verification has achieved significant performance improvement with the development of deep neural networks, domain mismatch is still a challenging problem in this field. In this study, we propose a novel framework to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Mufan Sang , Wei Xia , John H. L. Hansen

While the use of deep neural networks has significantly boosted speaker recognition performance, it is still challenging to separate speakers in poor acoustic environments. Here speech enhancement methods have traditionally allowed improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Yanpei Shi , Qiang Huang , Thomas Hain

Deep learning-based speech enhancement has shown unprecedented performance in recent years. The most popular mono speech enhancement frameworks are end-to-end networks mapping the noisy mixture into an estimate of the clean speech. With…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Bahareh Tolooshams , Kazuhito Koishida

Deepfake speech detection presents a growing challenge as generative audio technologies continue to advance. We propose a hybrid training framework that advances detection performance through novel augmentation strategies. First, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Inbal Rimon , Oren Gal , Haim Permuter

Speaker recognition performance has been greatly improved with the emergence of deep learning. Deep neural networks show the capacity to effectively deal with impacts of noise and reverberation, making them attractive to far-field speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-28 Wenda Chen , Jonathan Huang , Tobias Bocklet

Speaker verification systems usually suffer from the mismatch problem between training and evaluation data, such as speaker population mismatch, the channel and environment variations. In order to address this issue, it requires the system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Xu Li , Jinghua Zhong , Jianwei Yu , Shoukang Hu , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Deep learning technology has been widely applied to speech enhancement. While testing the effectiveness of various network structures, researchers are also exploring the improvement of the loss function used in network training. Although…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Tianrui Wang , Weibin Zhu

Neural speaker embeddings trained using classification objectives have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in multiple applications. Typically, such embeddings are trained on an out-of-domain corpus on a single task e.g., speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Manoj Kumar , Tae Jin-Park , Somer Bishop , Shrikanth Narayanan

In neural network based speaker verification, speaker embedding is expected to be discriminative between speakers while the intra-speaker distance should remain small. A variety of loss functions have been proposed to achieve this goal. In…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yi Liu , Liang He , Jia Liu

Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to learn speaker features. However, the quality of the learned features is not sufficiently good, so a complex back-end model, either neural or probabilistic, has to be used to address the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Lantian Li , Yixiang Chen , Ying Shi , Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang

While promising performance for speaker verification has been achieved by deep speaker embeddings, the advantage would reduce in the case of speaking-style variability. Speaking rate mismatch is often observed in practical speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Fuchuan Tong , Siqi Zheng , Haodong Zhou , Xingjia Xie , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Despite the significant improvements in speaker recognition enabled by deep neural networks, unsatisfactory performance persists under noisy environments. In this paper, we train the speaker embedding network to learn the "clean" embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Danwei Cai , Weicheng Cai , Ming Li

Recent research advances in deep neural network (DNN)-based beamformers have shown great promise for speech enhancement under adverse acoustic conditions. Different network architectures and input features have been explored in estimating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Hsinyu Chang , Yicheng Hsu , Mingsian R. Bai

Deep learning-based speech enhancement models achieve remarkable performance when test distributions match training conditions, but often degrade when deployed in unpredictable real-world environments with domain shifts. To address this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Tobias Raichle , Niels Edinger , Bin Yang

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based embedding methods have been proposed and have shown impressive performance in speaker verification. However, as in most of the classical embedding techniques, the deep learning-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-10 Woo Hyun Kang , Sung Hwan Mun , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li