Study on Gender Identification Based on Audio Recordings Using Gaussian Mixture Model and Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient Technique

Speaker recognition is an ability to identify speaker’s characteristics based from spoken language. The purpose of this study is to identify gender of speakers based on audio recordings. The objective of this study is to evaluate the accuracy rate of this technique to differentiate the gender and also to determine the performance rate to classify even when using self-acquired recordings. Audio forensics uses voice recordings as part of evidence to solve cases. This study is mainly conducted to provide an easier technique to identify the unknown speaker characteristics in forensic field. This experiment is fulfilled by training the pattern classifier using gender dependent data. In order to train the model, a speech database is obtained from an online speech corpus comprising of both male and female speakers. During the testing phase, apart from the data from speech corpus, audio recordings of UTM students will too be used to determine the accuracy rate of this speaker identification experiment. As for the technique to run this experiment, Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) algorithm is used to extract the features from speech data while Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is used to model the gender identifier. Noise removal was not used for any speech data in this experiment. Python software is used to extract using MFCC coefficients and model the behavior using GMM technique. Experiment results show that GMM-MFCC technique can identify gender regardless of language but with varying accuracy rate.

Individual Identification Through Voice Using Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) and Hidden Markov Models (HMM) Method

Voice is one of the parameters in the identification process of a person. Through the voice, information will be obtained such as gender, age, and even the identity of the speaker. Speaker recognition is a method to narrow down crimes and frauds committed by voice. So that it will minimize the occurrence of faking one's identity. The Method of Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient (MFCC) can be used in the speech recognition system. The process of feature extraction of speech signal using MFCC will produce acoustic speech signal. The classification, Hidden Markov Models (HMM) is used to match unidentified speaker’s voice with the voices in database. In this research, the system is used to verify the speaker, namely 15 text dependent in Indonesian. On testing the speaker with the same as database, the highest accuracy is 99,16%.