Text-Independent speaker identification in phoneme-independent subspace using PCA transformation

  • Authors:
  • Haoze Lu;Masafumi Nishida;Yasuo Horiuchi;Shingo Kuroiwa

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba 2638522, Japan.;Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe 6100394, Japan.;Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba 2638522, Japan.;Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Chiba 2638522, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Biometrics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we proposed a text-independent (TI) speaker identification method that suppresses the phonetic information by a subspace method, under the assumption that a subspace with large variance in the speech feature space is a 'phoneme-dependent subspace' and a complementary subspace of it is a 'phoneme-independent subspace'. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is employed to construct these subspaces. Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based speaker identification experiments using both the phonetic information suppressed feature and the conventional Mel-Frequency Ceptrum Coefficient (MFCC) were carried out. As a result, the proposed method has been proven to be effective for decreasing the identification error rates.