Robust Support Vector Machines for Speaker Verification Task

An important step in speaker verification is extracting features that best characterize the speaker voice. This paper investigates a front-end processing that aims at improving the performance of speaker verification based on the SVMs classifier, in text independent mode. This approach combines features based on conventional Mel-cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and Line Spectral Frequencies (LSFs) to constitute robust multivariate feature vectors. To reduce the high dimensionality required for training these feature vectors, we use a dimension reduction method called principal component analysis (PCA). In order to evaluate the robustness of these systems, different noisy environments have been used. The obtained results using TIMIT database showed that, using the paradigm that combines these spectral cues leads to a significant improvement in verification accuracy, especially with PCA reduction for low signal-to-noise ratio noisy environment.

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06Kawthar Yasmine Zergat Received her Master II degree in Communication and Multimedia from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne (USTHB)2010 · Kawthar Yasmine Zergat Received her Master II degree in Communication and Multimedia from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne (USTHB)
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11He received his " diplome d'ingenieur " (engineer degree) in Electronics from the National Polytechnic school of Algiers in 1980. He received his " Magister " degree in 1995 and Doctorat d'EtatAbderrahmane Amrouche Was born in AlgeriaPh.D) in Real Time Systems in 2007 from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedienne (USTHB). He is an Assistant Professor in Communication Systems and Speech Processing Laboratory, USTHB. His research interests include pattern recognition, spe

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