Title
On deep speaker embeddings for text-independent speaker recognition.
Abstract
We investigate deep neural network performance in the textindependent speaker recognition task. We demonstrate that using angular softmax activation at the last classification layer of a classification neural network instead of a simple softmax activation allows to train a more generalized discriminative speaker embedding extractor. Cosine similarity is an effective metric for speaker verification in this embedding space. We also address the problem of choosing an architecture for the extractor. We found that deep networks with residual frame level connections outperform wide but relatively shallow architectures. This paper also proposes several improvements for previous DNN-based extractor systems to increase the speaker recognition accuracy. We show that the discriminatively trained similarity metric learning approach outperforms the standard LDA-PLDA method as an embedding backend. The results obtained on Speakers in the Wild and NIST SRE 2016 evaluation sets demonstrate robustness of the proposed systems when dealing with close to real-life conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.21437/odyssey.2018-53
Odyssey
Field
DocType
Volume
Embedding,Cosine similarity,Softmax function,Computer science,Speech recognition,Robustness (computer science),Residual frame,Speaker recognition,Artificial neural network,Discriminative model
Journal
abs/1804.10080
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sergey Novoselov15110.57
Andrey Shulipa2376.02
Ivan Kremnev330.48
Alexander Kozlov4376.27
Vadim Shchemelinin5264.56