Pseudo Multi Parallel Branch HMM for Speaker Verification

  • Donato Impedovo
  • Mario Refice
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Part of the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing book series (AINSC, volume 57)

Summary

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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Authors and Affiliations

  • Donato Impedovo
    • 1
  • Mario Refice
    • 1
  1. 1.DEE Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed ElettronicaPolitecnico di BariBariItaly

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