Speaker Verification using Vector Quantization and Hidden Markov Model

This paper presents a speaker verification system using a combination of vector quantization (VQ) and hidden Markov model (HMM) to improve the HMM performance. A Malay spoken digit database which contains 100 speakers is used for the testing and validation modules. It is shown that, by using the proposed combination technique, a total success rate (TSR) of 99.97% is achieved and it is an improvement of 11.24% in performance compared to HMM. For speaker verification, true speaker rejection rate, impostor acceptance rate and equal error rate (EER) are also improved significantly compared to HMM.