SPECOM 2013: Speech and Computer pp 345-353 | Cite as
The Problem of Voice Template Aging in Speaker Recognition Systems
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Abstract
It is well known that device, language and environmental mismatch adversely affect speaker recognition performance. Much less attention is paid to effect of age-related voice changes on speaker recognition performance. In this paper we attempted to answer if speaker recognition algorithms have the re-sistance to age-related changes, and how often we have to update the voice bi-ometric templates. We have investigated such effects basing on the speech da-tabase collected during the period 2006-2010 and have found a clear trend of degradation of the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems in a time interval of up to 4 years.
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