Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)
- Volume 2 Issue 2
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- Pages.63-68
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- 2010
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- 2005-8063(pISSN)
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- 2586-5854(eISSN)
Fast Sequential Probability Ratio Test Method to Obtain Consistent Results in Speaker Verification
화자확인에서 일정한 결과를 얻기 위한 빠른 순시 확률비 테스트 방법
- Received : 2010.01.29
- Accepted : 2010.03.05
- Published : 2010.06.30
Abstract
A new version of sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) which has been investigated in utterance-length control is proposed to obtain uniform response results in speaker verification (SV). Although SPRTs can obtain fast responses in SV tests, differences in the performance may occur depending on the compositions of consonants and vowels in the sentences used. In this paper, a fast sequential probability ratio test (FSPRT) method that shows consistent performances at all times regardless of the compositions of vocalized sentences for SV will be proposed. In generating frames, the FSPRT will first conduct SV test processes with only generated frames without any overlapping and if the results do not satisfy discrimination criteria, the FSPRT will sequentially use frames applied with overlapping. With the progress of processes as such, the test will not be affected by the compositions of sentences for SV and thus fast response outcomes and even consistent performances can be obtained. Experimental results show that the FSPRT has better performance to the SPRT method while requiring less complexity with equal error rates (EER).
Keywords
- speaker verification (SV);
- sequential probability ratio test (SPRT);
- frame overlap;
- Gaussian Mixture model (GMM)