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Improved i-Vector Representation for Speaker Diarization

Xu, Yan, McLoughlin, Ian Vince, Song, Yan, Wu, Kui (2016) Improved i-Vector Representation for Speaker Diarization. Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 35 . pp. 3393-3404. ISSN 0278-081X. E-ISSN 1531-5878. (doi:10.1007/s00034-015-0206-2) (KAR id:55023)

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Abstract

This paper proposes using a previously well-trained deep neural network (DNN) to enhance the i-vector representation used for speaker diarization. In effect, we replace the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) typically used to train a Universal Background Model (UBM), with a DNN that has been trained using a different large scale dataset. To train the T-matrix we use a supervised UBM obtained from the DNN using filterbank input features to calculate the posterior information, and then MFCC features to train the UBM instead of a traditional unsupervised UBM derived from single features. Next we jointly use DNN and MFCC features to calculate the zeroth and first order Baum-Welch statistics for training an extractor from which we obtain the i-vector. The system will be shown to achieve a significant improvement on the NIST 2008 speaker recognition evaluation (SRE) telephone data task compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/s00034-015-0206-2
Uncontrolled keywords: Speaker diarization; DNN; i-vector;
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Ian McLoughlin
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2016 10:13 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/55023 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

McLoughlin, Ian Vince.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7111-2008
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