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The most pressing challenge in the field of voice biometrics is selecting the most efficient technique of speaker recognition. Every individual's voice is peculiar, factors like physical differences in vocal organs, accent and pronunciation…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Rishi Charan , Manisha. A , Karthik. R , Rajesh Kumar M

Speaker recognition systems based on deep speaker embeddings have achieved significant performance in controlled conditions according to the results obtained for early NIST SRE (Speaker Recognition Evaluation) datasets. From the practical…

This paper aims to improve the widely used deep speaker embedding x-vector model. We propose the following improvements: (1) a hybrid neural network structure using both time delay neural network (TDNN) and long short-term memory neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Yun Tang , Guohong Ding , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Speaker Verification (SV) systems involve mainly two individual stages: feature extraction and classification. In this paper, we explore these two modules with the aim of improving the performance of a speaker verification system under…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak , Ascensión Gallardo-Antol'in

In this paper, an architecture based on Long Short-Term Memory Networks has been proposed for the text-independent scenario which is aimed to capture the temporal speaker-related information by operating over traditional speech features.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-10 Aryan Mobiny , Mohammad Najarian

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

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

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

In this paper, we combine Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with i-vector extractors to address the problem of text-dependent speaker recognition with random digit strings. We employ digit-specific HMMs to segment the utterances into digits, to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Nooshin Maghsoodi , Hossein Sameti , Hossein Zeinali , Themos~Stafylakis

Speaker verification (SV) utilizing features obtained from models pre-trained via self-supervised learning has recently demonstrated impressive performances. However, these pre-trained models (PTMs) usually have a temporal resolution of 20…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Jisoo Myoung , Sangwook Han , Kihyuk Kim , Jong Won Shin

Majority of the recent approaches for text-independent speaker recognition apply attention or similar techniques for aggregation of frame-level feature descriptors generated by a deep neural network (DNN) front-end. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Sarthak Yadav , Atul Rai

This paper presents a system for the 2024 Text-Dependent Speaker Verification (TdSV) Challenge. The system achieved a Minimum Detection Cost Function (MinDCF) of 0.0461 and an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 1.3\%. Our approach focused on…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Amir Mohammad Rostami , Pourya Jafarzadeh

Recently, x-vector has been a successful and popular approach for speaker verification, which employs a time delay neural network (TDNN) and statistics pooling to extract speaker characterizing embedding from variable-length utterances.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Wentao Zhu , Tianlong Kong , Shun Lu , Jixiang Li , Dawei Zhang , Feng Deng , Xiaorui Wang , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

Cross-lingual voice conversion (CLVC) is a quite challenging task since the source and target speakers speak different languages. This paper proposes a CLVC framework based on bottleneck features and deep neural network (DNN). In the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 M Kiran Reddy , K Sreenivasa Rao

This paper proposes joint speaker feature learning methods for zero-shot adaptation of audio-visual multichannel speech separation and recognition systems. xVector and ECAPA-TDNN speaker encoders are connected using purpose-built fusion…

Verifying the identity of a speaker is crucial in modern human-machine interfaces, e.g., to ensure privacy protection or to enable biometric authentication. Classical speaker verification (SV) approaches estimate a fixed-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Ahmad Aloradi , Wolfgang Mack , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Typically, the Time-Delay Neural Network (TDNN) and Transformer can serve as a backbone for Speaker Verification (SV). Both of them have advantages and disadvantages from the perspective of global and local feature modeling. How to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Xiyuan Wang , Fangyuan Wang , Bo Xu , Liang Xu , Jing Xiao

In this paper we proposed an end-to-end short utterances speech language identification(SLD) approach based on a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural network which is special suitable for SLD application in intelligent vehicles. Features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Zhanyu Ma , Hong Yu

The performance of speaker recognition system is highly dependent on the amount of speech used in enrollment and test. This work presents a detailed experimental review and analysis of the GMM-SVM based speaker recognition system in…

In this paper, we propose a noise robust bottleneck feature representation which is generated by an adversarial network (AN). The AN includes two cascade connected networks, an encoding network (EN) and a discriminative network (DN).…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Hong Yu , Zheng-Hua Tan , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo