Title
PARAMETERIZED CHANNEL NORMALIZATION FOR FAR-FIELD DEEP SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Abstract
We address far-field speaker verification with deep neural network (DNN) based speaker embedding extractor, where mismatch between enrollment and test data often comes from convolutive effects (e.g. room reverberation) and noise. To mitigate these effects, we focus on two parametric normalization methods: per-channel energy normalization (PCEN) and parameterized cepstral mean normalization (PCMN). Both methods contain differentiable parameters and thus can be conveniently integrated to, and jointly optimized with the DNN using automatic differentiation methods. We consider both fixed and trainable (data-driven) variants of each method. We evaluate the performance on Hi-MIA, a recent large-scale far-field speech corpus, with varied microphone and positional settings. Our methods outperform conventional mel filterbank features, with maximum of 33.5% and 39.5% relative improvement on equal error rate under matched microphone and mismatched microphone conditions, respectively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ASRU51503.2021.9688142
2021 IEEE AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING WORKSHOP (ASRU)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
acoustic feature extractor, channel normalization, spectrogram, far-field speaker verification
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuechen Liu110.71
Md. Sahidullah232624.99
Tomi Kinnunen3132386.67