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标题：Factor analysis method for text-independent speaker identification
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作者：Liu, Tingting ; Guan, Shengxiao
期刊名称：Journal of Software
印刷版ISSN：1796-217X
出版年度：2014
卷号：9
期号：11
页码：2851-2860
DOI：10.4304/jsw.9.11.2851-2860
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Factor analysis method offers state-of-the-art performance in speaker identification during the paper. The compact representations of speakers named i-vectors are extracted from the utterances in a new low dimensional speaker- and channel-dependent space, referred to a total variability space. LBG algorithm is combined with fuzzy theory in the initialization of speaker models，which helps improve the recognition rate of the system. Channel compensation techniques, such as Linear Discriminate Analysis (LDA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Nuisance Attribute Projection (NAP) and Within-class Covariance Normalization (WCCN) are compared during the experiment. It can be seen that LDA followed by WCCN achieves satisfying performance. In addition, experiments contrast several identification methods. One is through Support-Vector-Machine (SVM), another one directly uses the cosine distance similarity (CDS) as the final decision score, logarithmic likelihood and vector quantization are used to compare to above two methods. It demonstrates that CDS combined with score normalization obtains better result. The testing of mobile phone database shows the robustness of the system in complex channel environment. The graphical user interface of training and testing module is simulated on MATLAB in the end of the paper.
关键词：factor analysis;total space;i-vector;channel compensation;cosine similarity;score normalization