ISCA Archive Odyssey 2008
ISCA Archive Odyssey 2008

Dimension reduction of the modulation spectrogram for speaker verification

Tomi Kinnunen, Kong-Aik Lee, Haizhou Li

A so-called modulation spectrogram is obtained from the conventional speech spectrogram by short-term spectral analysis along the temporal trajectories of the frequency bins. In its original definition, the modulation spectrogram is a highdimensional representation and it is not clear how to extract features from it. In this paper, we define a low-dimensional feature which captures the shape of the modulation spectra. The recognition accuracy of the modulation spectrogram based classifier is improved from our previous result of EER=25.1% to EER=17.4% on the NIST 2001 speaker recognition task.