A comparison between sequence kernels for SVM speaker verification

  • Authors:
  • Khalid Daoudi;Jerome Louradour

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT-CNRS. France;University of Montreal. Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a comparative study of several SVM speaker verification (SV) systems based on sequence kernels: the GMM-supervectors kernel, the Fisher kernel, the Generalized Linear Discriminant Sequence (GLDS) kernel, our Feature Space Normalized Sequence (FSNS) kernel and a “novel” sequence kernel in SV, the Correlation kernel. We also compare these SVM systems to the conventional generative UBM-GMM. We carry out experiments on the NIST'2005 SRE evaluation set. The results show that the FSNS system yields comparable performances to UBM-GMM and significantly outperforms GLDS. They also show that the GMM-supervectors system outperforms all the others. Finally, they show that the best performances are achieved by fusing the FSNS and the GMM-supervectors systems.