Title
SQUEEZING VALUE OF CROSS-DOMAIN LABELS: A DECOUPLED SCORING APPROACH FOR SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Abstract
Domain mismatch often occurs in real applications and causes serious performance reduction on speaker verification systems. The common wisdom is to collect cross-domain data and train a multi-domain PLDA model, with the hope to learn a domain-independent speaker subspace. In this paper, we firstly present an empirical study to show that simply adding cross-domain data does not help performance in conditions with enrollment-test mismatch. Careful analysis shows that this striking result is caused by the incoherent statistics between the enrollment and test conditions. Based on this analysis, we present a decoupled scoring approach that can maximally squeeze the value of cross-domain labels and obtain optimal verification scores in the enrollment-test mismatch condition. When the statistics are coherent, the new formulation falls back to the conventional PLDA. Experimental results on cross-channel test show that the proposed approach is highly effective and is a principal solution to domain mismatch.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414794
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
speaker verification, domain mismatch, decoupled scoring
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lantian Li161.44
Yang Zhang201.01
Jiawen Kang354331.46
Thomas Fang Zheng468992.78
Dong Wang537539.86