A new Bayesian network to assess the reliability of speaker verification decisions
Jesús Villalba, Eduardo Lleida, Alfonso Ortega, Antonio Miguel · 2013
In some situations the quality of the signals involved in a speaker verification trial is not as good as needed to take a reliable decision. In this work, we present a new method based on Bayesian networks and quality measures to estimate if the trial decision is reliable. We present experiments on the NIST SRE2010 dataset degraded with additive noise. A system well calibrated for clean speech, produces a large actual DCF on the degraded dataset. We use our method to discard the unreliable trials and achieve a dramatic improvement of the cost values. We also prove that our method outperforms previously published approaches.