Automatic speaker recognition with Multi-resolution Gaussian Mixture models (MR-GMMs)

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1. Verfasser: D’Almeida, Frederico Quadros
Publikationsdatum: 2009
Weitere Verfasser: Nascimento, Francisco Assis de Oliveira, Berger, Pedro de Azevedo, Silva, Lúcio Martins da
Format: Article
Sprache: eng
Quelle: Repositório Institucional da UnB
Download full: http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/11091
https://dx.doi.org/10.5769/J200901001
Zusammenfassung: Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are the most widely used technique for voice modeling in automatic speaker recognition systems. In this paper, we introduce a variation of the traditional GMM approach that uses models with variable complexity (resolution). Termed Multi-resolution GMMs (MR-GMMs); this new approach yields more than a 50% reduction in the computational costs associated with proper speaker identification, as compared to the traditional GMM approach. We also explore the noise robustness of the new method by investigating MR-GMM performance under noisy audio conditions using a series of practical identification tests.