A robust speaker recognition system combining factor analysis techniques (original) (raw)

Abstract

in this paper we implement state of the art factor analysis based methods and fused their scores to gain a channel robust speaker recognition system. These two methods are joint factor analysis (JFA) and i-Vector which define low-dimensional speaker and channel dependent spaces. For score fusion we propose a simple weight computation without training step. We experiment our method on two conditions; 1) in channel matched training and test channel (telephone in training phase/telephone in test phase) task and 2) the channel mismatched condition (telephone training phase/microphone, GSM and VOIP in test phase) task. Our strategies outperform a state-of-the-art GMM-UBM based system. We obtained more than 4% absolute EER improvement for both channel dependent and channel independent condition compared to the standard GMM-UBM based method. Simulation also results that the combined i-Vector and JFA based system give better performance than all implemented method.

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