Enhancement of a Text-Independent Speaker Verification System by using Feature Combination and Parallel-Structure Classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15018v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:19:59 GMT
• Title: Enhancement of a Text-Independent Speaker Verification System by using Feature Combination and Parallel-Structure Classifiers
• Authors: Kerlos Atia Abdalmalak and Ascensi\'on Gallardo-Antol'in
• Abstract summary: This paper explores the two modules: feature extraction and classification. The choice of the most appropriate acoustic features is a crucial factor for performing robust speaker verification. To enhance the system more in noisy environments, the inclusion of the multiband noise removal technique as a preprocessing stage is proposed.
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• Abstract: Speaker Verification (SV) systems involve mainly two individual stages: feature extraction and classification. In this paper, we explore these two modules with the aim of improving the performance of a speaker verification system under noisy conditions. On the one hand, the choice of the most appropriate acoustic features is a crucial factor for performing robust speaker verification. The acoustic parameters used in the proposed system are: Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), their first and second derivatives (Deltas and Delta- Deltas), Bark Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (BFCC), Perceptual Linear Predictive (PLP), and Relative Spectral Transform - Perceptual Linear Predictive (RASTA-PLP). In this paper, a complete comparison of different combinations of the previous features is discussed. On the other hand, the major weakness of a conventional Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is the use of generic traditional kernel functions to compute the distances among data points. However, the kernel function of an SVM has great influence on its performance. In this work, we propose the combination of two SVM-based classifiers with different kernel functions: Linear kernel and Gaussian Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel with a Logistic Regression (LR) classifier. The combination is carried out by means of a parallel structure approach, in which different voting rules to take the final decision are considered. Results show that significant improvement in the performance of the SV system is achieved by using the combined features with the combined classifiers either with clean speech or in the presence of noise. Finally, to enhance the system more in noisy environments, the inclusion of the multiband noise removal technique as a preprocessing stage is proposed.

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