ISCA Archive ICSLP 2002
ISCA Archive ICSLP 2002

Exploiting support vector machines in hidden Markov models for speaker verification

Dong Xin, Zhaohui Wu, Yingchun Yang

Hidden Markov Models have been proved to be an efficient way for statistically modeling sequence signals. And the Support Vector Machines seem to be a promising candidate to perform the classification task. A new method combining support vector machine and hidden Markov models is proposed. The output of support vector machines are modified as posterior probability using sigmoid function, and act as a probability evaluator in the hidden states of HMM.