In this paper, we describe a prototype speaker identification system using auto-associative neural network (AANN) and formant features. Our experiments demonstrate that formants extracted from difference spectrum perform significantly better than formants extracted from normal spectrum for the task of speaker identification. We also demonstrate that formants from difference spectrum provide com...

This paper provides an efficient approach for text-independent speaker identification using the Inverted Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients as feature set and Finite Doubly Truncated Gaussian Mixture as Model (FDTGMM). Over the years, Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), modeled on the human auditory system, has been used as a standard acoustic feature set for speech related application...

In this paper, we propose several compensation approaches to alleviate the effect of additive noise on speech features for speech recognition. These approaches are simple yet efficient noise reduction techniques that use online constructed pseudo stereo codebooks to evaluate the statistics in both clean and noisy environments. The process yields transforms for noisecorrupted speech features to ...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of different features and channel compensation techniques for robust speaker identification. The goal is to keep all processing and classification steps constant and to vary only the features and compensations used to allow a controlled comparison. A general, maximum-likelihood classifier based on Gaussian mixture densities is used as the classifie...

A method based on cepstral deconvolution technique is proposed for measurement of absorption and scattering coefficients of materials. The reverberation room method standardized by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is taken as the reference for measurements. Several measurements are conducted in a physically scaled reverberation room and results are evaluated by these two met...

In this paper a method of text-independent speaker recognition using discrete vector quantization is presented. The identification experiments were performed in a closed set of 599 speakers and two various types of features were tested: cepstral mean subtraction coefficients and mel-frequency cepstral coefficients. The effect of the various codebook size on the speaker identification performanc...

In this paper, we present robust feature extractors that incorporate a regularized minimum variance distortionless response (RMVDR) spectrum estimator instead of the discrete Fourier transform-based direct spectrum estimator, used in many front-ends including the conventional MFCC, to estimate the speech power spectrum. Direct spectrum estimators, e.g., single tapered periodogram, have high var...

In this paper, a feature extraction method that is robust to additive background noise is proposed for automatic speech recognition. Since the background noise corrupts the autocorrelation coefficients of the speech signal mostly at the lowertime lags, while the higher-lag autocorrelation coefficients are least affected, this method discards the lower-lag autocorrelation coefficients and uses o...