A multi-class MLLR kernel for SVM speaker recognition

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Speaker recognition using support vector machines (SVMs) with features derived from generative models has been shown to perform well. Typically, a universal background model (UBM) is adapted to each utterance yielding a set of features that are used in an SVM. We consider the case where the UBM is a Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) adaptation is used to adapt the means of the UBM. Recent work has examined this setup for the case where a global MLLR transform is applied to all the mixture components of the GMM UBM. This work produced positive results that warrant examining this setup with multi-class MLLR adaptation, which groups the UBM mixture components into classes and applies a different transform to each class. This paper extends the MLLR/GMM framework to the multiclass case. Experiments on the NIST SRE 2006 corpus show that multi-class MLLR improves on global MLLR and that the proposed system’s performance is comparable with state o...

Zahi N. Karam, William M. Campbell

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