Cluster-dependent feature transformation with divergence-based out-of-handset rejection for robust speaker verification
Chi-Leung Tsang, Man‐Wai Mak, Sun-Yuan Kung · 2004
This paper proposes a divergence-based cluster selector with out-of-handset (OOH) rejection capability to identify the 'unseen' handsets. This is achieved by measuring the Jensen difference between the selector's output and a constant vector with identical elements. The resulting cluster selector is combined with a feature-based channel compensation algorithm for telephone-based speaker verification. Utterances whose handsets are identified as 'unseen' are normalized by cepstral mean subtraction (CMS). On the other hand, if the handset can be identified (considered as 'seen'), a corresponding set of cluster-dependent transformation parameters are used to transform the utterances. Experiments based on ten handsets of the HTIMIT corpus show that using the cluster-dependent transformation parameters to transform the utterances with correctly identified handsets and processing those utterances with 'unseen' handsets by CMS achieve the best result.