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Pseudo Multi Parallel Branch HMM for Speaker Verification

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Computer Recognition Systems 3

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 57))

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This paper describes an approach, called Pseudo Multi Parallel Branch (P-MPB) Model, for coping with performance degradation typically observed over (short and medium) time and trials in Text Dependent Speaker Verification’s task. It is based on the use of a fused HMM model having a multi parallel branch topology where each branch consists of an HMM referring to a specific frame’s length representation of the speaker. The approach shows reasonable ER’s reduction from the baseline system.

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Impedovo, D., Refice, M. (2009). Pseudo Multi Parallel Branch HMM for Speaker Verification. In: Kurzynski, M., Wozniak, M. (eds) Computer Recognition Systems 3. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93905-4_40

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