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Modern speaker verification models use deep neural networks to encode utterance audio into discriminative embedding vectors. During the training process, these networks are typically optimized to differentiate arbitrary speakers. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Hua Shen , Yuguang Yang , Guoli Sun , Ryan Langman , Eunjung Han , Jasha Droppo , Andreas Stolcke

Most speaker verification tasks are studied as an open-set evaluation scenario considering the real-world condition. Thus, the generalization power to unseen speakers is of paramount important to the performance of the speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ju-ho Kim , Hye-jin Shim , Jee-weon Jung , Ha-Jin Yu

Neural models, in particular the d-vector and x-vector architectures, have produced state-of-the-art performance on many speaker verification tasks. However, two potential problems of these neural models deserve more investigation. Firstly,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Lantian Li , Zhiyuan Tang , Ying Shi , Dong Wang

The performance of automatic speaker verification (ASV) and anti-spoofing drops seriously under real-world domain mismatch conditions. The relaxed instance frequency-wise normalization (RFN), which normalizes the frequency components based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Jin Li , Man-Wai Mak , Johan Rohdin , Kong Aik Lee , Hynek Hermansky

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) rapidly advance in various fields, including speech verification, they typically involve high computational costs and substantial memory consumption, which can be challenging to manage on mobile systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-15 Yeona Hong , Woo-Jin Chung , Hong-Goo Kang

Modern automatic speaker verification (ASV) relies heavily on machine learning implemented through deep neural networks. It can be difficult to interpret the output of these black boxes. In line with interpretative machine learning, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Rosa González Hautamäki , Tomi Kinnunen

The ResNet-based architecture has been widely adopted to extract speaker embeddings for text-independent speaker verification systems. By introducing the residual connections to the CNN and standardizing the residual blocks, the ResNet…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Tianyan Zhou , Yong Zhao , Jian Wu

Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently been widely used in speaker recognition systems, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. The x-vector architecture is especially popular in this research community, due to its…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Munir Georges , Jonathan Huang , Tobias Bocklet

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

Recent research shows that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be used to extract deep speaker vectors (d-vectors) that preserve speaker characteristics and can be used in speaker verification. This new method has been tested on text-dependent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Lantian Li , Dong Wang , Zhiyong Zhang , Thomas Fang Zheng

Speaker verification (SV) systems using deep neural network embeddings, so-called the x-vector systems, are becoming popular due to its good performance superior to the i-vector systems. The fusion of these systems provides improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-19 Longting Xu , Rohan Kumar Das , Emre Yılmaz , Jichen Yang , Haizhou Li

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

Text-independent speaker recognition using short utterances is a highly challenging task due to the large variation and content mismatch between short utterances. I-vector based systems have become the standard in speaker verification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-18 Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu , Kailun Qian , Yang Shi , Kaiyuan Xu , Yingnian Wu , Abeer Alwan

This article presents a novel approach for learning domain-invariant speaker embeddings using Generative Adversarial Networks. The main idea is to confuse a domain discriminator so that is can't tell if embeddings are from the source or…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-08 Gautam Bhattacharya , Joao Monteiro , Jahangir Alam , Patrick Kenny

A deep learning approach has been proposed recently to derive speaker identifies (d-vector) by a deep neural network (DNN). This approach has been applied to text-dependent speaker recognition tasks and shows reasonable performance gains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Lantian Li , Yiye Lin , Zhiyong Zhang , Dong Wang

This paper proposes novel algorithms for speaker embedding using subjective inter-speaker similarity based on deep neural networks (DNNs). Although conventional DNN-based speaker embedding such as a $d$-vector can be applied to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Yuki Saito , Shinnosuke Takamichi , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Modern speaker verification systems primarily rely on speaker embeddings, followed by verification based on cosine similarity between the embedding vectors of the enrollment and test utterances. While effective, these methods struggle with…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Wan Lin , Junhui Chen , Tianhao Wang , Zhenyu Zhou , Lantian Li , Dong Wang

State-of-the-art neural network language models (NNLMs) represented by long short term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM-RNNs) and Transformers are becoming highly complex. They are prone to overfitting and poor generalization when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Boyang Xue , Shoukang Hu , Junhao Xu , Mengzhe Geng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

State-of-the-art speaker verification models are based on deep learning techniques, which heavily depend on the handdesigned neural architectures from experts or engineers. We borrow the idea of neural architecture search(NAS) for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

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