Title :
Speaker verification based on Saudi accented Arabic database
Author :
Alkanhal, Mohamed ; Alghamdi, Mansour ; Muzaffar, Zeeshan
Author_Institution :
King Abdulaziz City for Sci. & Technol., Riyadh
Abstract :
Speaker verification is concerned with verifying the speakerpsilas claimed identity. This paper reports on recent experiments we carried out for speaker verification using a Saudi accented Arabic telephone speech database with 1033 speakers. Gaussian Mixture Model was employed in these experiments. In speaker verification, users might produce two or more utterances. We show that we can reduce error rates by combining scores of these utterances.
Keywords :
Gaussian distribution; speech processing; speech recognition; Gaussian mixture model; Saudi accented Arabic database; speaker verification; telephone speech database; utterances; Appropriate technology; Artificial neural networks; Cities and towns; Databases; Hidden Markov models; Kernel; Mathematical model; Speech; Support vector machine classification; Support vector machines;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Its Applications, 2007. ISSPA 2007. 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sharjah
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0778-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1779-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISSPA.2007.4555537