Multiband Approach to Robust Text-Independent Speaker Identification

Wan-Chen Chen ； Ching-Tang Hsieh ； Eugene Lai

《中文計算語言學期刊》 9卷2期 (2004/08) Pp. 63-75

https://doi.org/10.30019/IJCLCLP.200408.0005

並列摘要

This paper presents an effective method for improving the performance of a speaker identification system. Based on the multiresolution property of the wavelet transform, the input speech signal is decomposed into various frequency bands in order not to spread noise distortions over the entire feature space. To capture the characteristics of the vocal tract, the linear predictive cepstral coefficients (LPCCs) of each band are calculated. Furthermore, the cepstral mean normalization technique is applied to all computed features in order to provide similar parameter statistics in all acoustic environments. In order to effectively utilize these multiband speech features, we use feature recombination and likelihood recombination methods to evaluate the task of text-independent speaker identification. The feature recombination scheme combines the cepstral coefficients of each band to form a single feature vector used to train the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). The likelihood recombination scheme combines the likelihood scores of the independent GMM for each band. Experimental results show that both proposed methods achieve better performance than GMM using full-band LPCCs and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) when the speaker identification is evaluated in the presence of clean and noisy environments.

並列關鍵字

speaker identification ； wavelet transform ； linear predictive cepstral coefficient LPCC ； mel-frequency cepstral coefficient MFCC ； Gaussian mixture model GMM

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