“TalkPrinting”: Improving Speaker Recognition by Modeling Stylistic Features
Sachin Kajarekar4, Kemal Sönmez4, Luciana Ferrer4, Venkata Gadde4, Anand Venkataraman4, Elizabeth Shriberg4, Andreas Stolcke4 and Harry Bratt4
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Speech Technology and Research Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA |
Abstract
Automatic speaker recognition is an important technology for intelligence gathering, law enforcement, and audio mining. Conventional
speaker recognition systems, which are based on independent short-term spectral samples, suffer from a lack of noise robustness
and are unable to model a speaker’s idiosyncratic stylistic features. This paper describes “TalkPrinting”, a program of research
aimed at adding such stylistic features to conventional systems. Results on three preliminary systems based on stylistic features
demonstrate that (1) the new features alone carry significant speaker information; (2) they also carry significant complementary
information compared to the conventional features; and (3) they provide increasing improvements in performance with increasing
test durations.
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