Integrating complementary features with a confidence measure for speaker identification

Authors:
Nengheng Zheng;P. C. Ching;Ning Wang;Tan Lee
Affiliations:
Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Venue:
ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper investigates the effectiveness of integrating complementary acoustic features for improved speaker identification performance. The complementary contributions of two acoustic features, i.e. the conventional vocal tract related features MFCC and the recently proposed vocal source related features WOCOR, for speaker identification are studied. An integrating system, which performs a score level fusion of MFCC and WOCOR with a confidence measure as the weighting parameter, is proposed to take full advantage of the complementarity between the two features. The confidence measure is derived based on the speaker discrimination powers of MFCC and WOCOR in each individual identification trial so as to give more weight to the one with higher confidence in speaker discrimination. Experiments show that information fusion with such a confidence measure based varying weight outperforms that with a pre-trained fixed weight in speaker identification.