Improving speaker verification robustness with synthetic emotional utterances

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00319v1
• Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 02:18:26 GMT
• Title: Improving speaker verification robustness with synthetic emotional utterances
• Authors: Nikhil Kumar Koditala, Chelsea Jui-Ting Ju, Ruirui Li, Minho Jin, Aman Chadha, Andreas Stolcke,
• Abstract summary: A speaker verification (SV) system offers an authentication service designed to confirm whether a given speech sample originates from a specific speaker. Previous models exhibit high error rates when dealing with emotional utterances compared to neutral ones. This issue primarily stems from the limited availability of labeled emotional speech data. We propose a novel approach employing the CycleGAN framework to serve as a data augmentation method.
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• Abstract: A speaker verification (SV) system offers an authentication service designed to confirm whether a given speech sample originates from a specific speaker. This technology has paved the way for various personalized applications that cater to individual preferences. A noteworthy challenge faced by SV systems is their ability to perform consistently across a range of emotional spectra. Most existing models exhibit high error rates when dealing with emotional utterances compared to neutral ones. Consequently, this phenomenon often leads to missing out on speech of interest. This issue primarily stems from the limited availability of labeled emotional speech data, impeding the development of robust speaker representations that encompass diverse emotional states. To address this concern, we propose a novel approach employing the CycleGAN framework to serve as a data augmentation method. This technique synthesizes emotional speech segments for each specific speaker while preserving the unique vocal identity. Our experimental findings underscore the effectiveness of incorporating synthetic emotional data into the training process. The models trained using this augmented dataset consistently outperform the baseline models on the task of verifying speakers in emotional speech scenarios, reducing equal error rate by as much as 3.64% relative.

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