ISCA Archive ISCSLP 2006
ISCA Archive ISCSLP 2006

Feature Extraction and Test Algorithm for Speaker Verification

Wu Guo, Renhua Wang, Lirong Dai

In this paper we introduce two methods to improve text-independent speaker verification. In feature extraction process the feature vectors of voiced speech and unvoiced speech independently. In test process, the test speech is adapted to a new model instead of calculating the log-likelihood, then the Mahalanobis Distances among the UBM model, the speaker model and the test speech model are calculated. These three models distances formed a triangle. The angle of the models can be obtained as the test scores. Further more the scores of the log-likelihood and the angle of the models can be fused to improve performance. When we employ the proposed algorithms, the EER of the speaker verification can be reduced by 20% compared with the baseline system.