Covariance-Tied Clustering Method In Speaker Identification

  • Authors:
  • ZhiQiang Wang;Yang Liu;Peng Ding;Xu Bo

  • Affiliations:
  • Chinese Academy of Science;Chinese Academy of Science;Chinese Academy of Science;Chinese Academy of Science

  • Venue:
  • ICMI '02 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) have been successfully applied to the classier for speaker modeling in speaker identification. However, there are still problems to solve, such as the clustering methods. Conditional K-Means Algorithm utilizes Euclidean distance taking all datadistribution as sphericity, which is not the distribution of the actual data. In this paper we present a new method to make use of covariance information to direct the clustering of GMMs, namely covariance-tied clustering. This method is consisted of two parts: obtaining thecovariance matrices using data sharing technique based on binary tree and making use of the covariance matrices to direct clustering. The experiments results prove that this method leads to worthwhile reductions of error rates in speaker identification. Much remains to be done toexplore fully the covariance information.