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In this study, we focus on nonlinear compression methods in spectral features for speaker verification based on deep neural network. We consider different kinds of channel-dependent (CD) nonlinear compression methods optimized in a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

In this paper we present a data-driven, integrated approach to speaker verification, which maps a test utterance and a few reference utterances directly to a single score for verification and jointly optimizes the system's components using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Georg Heigold , Ignacio Moreno , Samy Bengio , Noam Shazeer

The speech representations learned from large-scale unlabeled data have shown better generalizability than those from supervised learning and thus attract a lot of interest to be applied for various downstream tasks. In this paper, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhengyang Chen , Sanyuan Chen , Yu Wu , Yao Qian , Chengyi Wang , Shujie Liu , Yanmin Qian , Michael Zeng

Speaker embeddings carry valuable emotion-related information, which makes them a promising resource for enhancing speech emotion recognition (SER), especially with limited labeled data. Traditionally, it has been assumed that emotion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Ismail Rasim Ulgen , Zongyang Du , Carlos Busso , Berrak Sisman

Deep speaker embedding extractors have already become new state-of-the-art systems in the speaker verification field. However, the problem of verification score calibration for such systems often remains out of focus. An irrelevant score…

Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) is crucial for identifying target speaker segments in the mixture, yet its performance heavily depends on the quality of speaker embeddings. A key practical limitation is the short enrollment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Fuyuan Feng , Wenbin Zhang , Yu Gao , Longting Xu , Xiaofeng Mou , Yi Xu

Speaker recognition technology is applied to various tasks, from personal virtual assistants to secure access systems. However, the robustness of these systems against adversarial attacks, particularly to additive perturbations, remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Dmitrii Korzh , Elvir Karimov , Mikhail Pautov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ivan Oseledets

Deep neural network approaches to speaker verification have proven successful, but typical computational requirements of State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) systems make them unsuited for embedded applications. In this work, we present a two-stage…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Julien Balian , Raffaele Tavarone , Mathieu Poumeyrol , Alice Coucke

This paper explores applying the wav2vec2 framework to speaker recognition instead of speech recognition. We study the effectiveness of the pre-trained weights on the speaker recognition task, and how to pool the wav2vec2 output sequence…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nik Vaessen , David A. van Leeuwen

End-to-end models are fast replacing the conventional hybrid models in automatic speech recognition. Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence model, based on self-attention popularly used in machine translation tasks, has given promising results…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Vishwas M. Shetty , Metilda Sagaya Mary N J , S. Umesh

We present Deep Speaker, a neural speaker embedding system that maps utterances to a hypersphere where speaker similarity is measured by cosine similarity. The embeddings generated by Deep Speaker can be used for many tasks, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Chao Li , Xiaokong Ma , Bing Jiang , Xiangang Li , Xuewei Zhang , Xiao Liu , Ying Cao , Ajay Kannan , Zhenyao Zhu

Recently, fake audio detection has gained significant attention, as advancements in speech synthesis and voice conversion have increased the vulnerability of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems to spoofing attacks. A key challenge…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Ju Yeon Kang , Ji Won Yoon , Semin Kim , Min Hyun Han , Nam Soo Kim

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a field that has drawn a lot of attention due to its applications in diverse fields. A current trend in methods used for SER is to leverage embeddings from pre-trained models (PTMs) as input features to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Orchid Chetia Phukan , Arun Balaji Buduru , Rajesh Sharma

In speaker diarisation, speaker embedding extraction models often suffer from the mismatch between their training loss functions and the speaker clustering method. In this paper, we propose the method of spectral clustering-aware learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Evonne P. C. Lee , Guangzhi Sun , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

This paper presents a novel design of attention model for text-independent speaker verification. The model takes a pair of input utterances and generates an utterance-level embedding to represent speaker-specific characteristics in each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

For the speaker-controlled spoken language identification task proposed in the TidyLang Challenge 2026, this paper proposes a language identification method based on pre-trained models and margin-based losses. The proposed method adopts a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhihua Fang , Liang He , Weiwu Jiang

In this paper, we address the problem of speaker recognition in challenging acoustic conditions using a novel method to extract robust speaker-discriminative speech representations. We adopt a recently proposed unsupervised adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Raghuveer Peri , Monisankha Pal , Arindam Jati , Krishna Somandepalli , Shrikanth Narayanan

Speaker embeddings are continuous-value vector representations that allow easy comparison between voices of speakers with simple geometric operations. Among others, i-vector and x-vector have emerged as the mainstream methods for speaker…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Ville Vestman , Kong Aik Lee , Tomi H. Kinnunen , Takafumi Koshinaka

Previous work has encouraged domain-invariance in deep speaker embedding by adversarially classifying the dataset or labelled environment to which the generated features belong. We propose a training strategy which aims to produce features…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Chau Luu , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Speaker identification in the household scenario (e.g., for smart speakers) is typically based on only a few enrollment utterances but a much larger set of unlabeled data, suggesting semisupervised learning to improve speaker profiles. We…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Long Chen , Venkatesh Ravichandran , Andreas Stolcke