Use of Gaussian Mixture Models in Macedonian forensic speaker identification

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branislav Gerazov ◽  
Vesna Pop-Dimitrijoska ◽  
Zoran Ivanovski ◽  
Gordana Apostolovska
Keyword(s):  
Mixture Models ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Gaussian Mixture Models ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Forensic Speaker Identification

SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION BY AGGREGATING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS (GMMs) BASED ON UNCORRELATED MFCC-DERIVED FEATURES

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 1456006 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMITA PAL ◽  
SMARAJIT BOSE ◽  
GOPAL K. BASAK ◽  
AMITAVA MUKHOPADHYAY
Keyword(s):  
Mixture Models ◽  
Speaker Recognition ◽  
Speaker Identification ◽  
Gaussian Mixture Models ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Signal Process

For solving speaker identification problems, the approach proposed by Reynolds [IEEE Signal Process. Lett.2 (1995) 46–48], using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) based on Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) as features, is one of the most effective available in the literature. The use of GMMs for modeling speaker identity is motivated by the interpretation that the Gaussian components represent some general speaker-dependent spectral shapes, and also by the capability of Gaussian mixtures to model arbitrary densities. In this work, we have initially illustrated, with the help of a new bilingual speech corpus, how the well-known principal component transformation, in conjunction with the principle of classifier combination can be used to enhance the performance of the MFCC-GMM speaker recognition systems significantly. Subsequently, we have emphatically and rigorously established the same using the benchmark speech corpus NTIMIT. A significant outcome of this work is that the proposed approach has the potential to enhance the performance of any speaker recognition system based on correlated features.

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