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KMID : 1022420100020030127
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2010 Volume.2 No. 3 p.127 ~ p.134
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Performance Improvement of Robust Speaker Verification According to Various Standard Deviations of a Reference Distribution in Histogram Transformation
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Kwon Chul-Hhong
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Abstract
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Additive noise and channel mismatch strongly degrade the performance of speaker verification systems, as they distort the features of speech. In this paper a histogram transformation technique is presented to improve the robustness of text-independent speaker verification systems. The technique transforms the features extracted from speech such that their histogram is conformed to a reference distribution. The effect of different standard deviations for the reference distribution is investigated. Experimental results indicate that, in channel mismatched environments, the proposed technique offers significant improvements over existing techniques. We also verify performance improvement of the proposed method using statistics.
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KEYWORD
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robust speaker verification, histogram transformation, statistics
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