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Speaker Segmentation for Air Traffic Control

Michael NeffeContact Information, Tuan Van PhamContact Information, Horst HeringContact Information and Gernot KubinContact Information

(1)  Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory, Graz University of Technology, Austria
(2)  Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, France
Abstract
In this contribution a novel system of speaker segmentation has been designed for improving safety on voice communication in air traffic control. In addition to the usage of the aircraft identification tag to assign speaker turns on the shared communication channel to aircrafts, speaker verification is investigated as an add-on attribute to improve security level effectively for the air traffic control. The verification task is done by training universal background models and speaker dependent models based on Gaussian mixture model approach. The feature extraction and normalization units are especially optimized to deal with small bandwidth restrictions and very short speaker turns. To enhance the robustness of the verification system, a cross verification unit is further applied. The designed system is tested with SPEECHDAT-AT and WSJ0 database to demonstrate its superior performance.

Keywords  Speaker Segmentation/Verification - Air Traffic Control - GMM-UBM - Voice Activity Detection - Quantile Filtering


Contact Information Michael Neffe
Email: michael.neffe@TUGraz.at

Contact Information Tuan Van Pham
Email: v.t.pham@TUGraz.at

Contact Information Horst Hering
Email: horst.hering@eurocontrol.int

Contact Information Gernot Kubin
Email: g.kubin@ieee.org
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