TY - GEN
T1 - Approaching human listener accuracy with modern speaker verification
AU - Hautamäki, Ville
AU - Kinnunen, Tomi
AU - Nosratighods, Mohaddeseh
AU - Lee, Kong Aik
AU - Ma, Bin
AU - Li, Haizhou
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Being able to recognize people from their voice is a natural ability that we take for granted. Recent advances have shown significant improvement in automatic speaker recognition performance. Besides being able to process large amount of data in a fraction of time required by human, automatic systems are now able to deal with diverse channel effects. The goal of this paper is to examine how state-of-the-art automatic system performs in comparison with human listeners, and to investigate the strategy for human-assisted form of automatic speaker recognition, which is useful in forensic investigation. We set up an experimental protocol using data from the NIST SRE 2008 core set. A total of 36 listeners have participated in the listening experiments from three sites, namely Australia, Finland and Singapore. State-of-the-art automatic system achieved 20% error rate, whereas fusion of human listeners achieved 22%.
AB - Being able to recognize people from their voice is a natural ability that we take for granted. Recent advances have shown significant improvement in automatic speaker recognition performance. Besides being able to process large amount of data in a fraction of time required by human, automatic systems are now able to deal with diverse channel effects. The goal of this paper is to examine how state-of-the-art automatic system performs in comparison with human listeners, and to investigate the strategy for human-assisted form of automatic speaker recognition, which is useful in forensic investigation. We set up an experimental protocol using data from the NIST SRE 2008 core set. A total of 36 listeners have participated in the listening experiments from three sites, namely Australia, Finland and Singapore. State-of-the-art automatic system achieved 20% error rate, whereas fusion of human listeners achieved 22%.
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M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:79959816522
T3 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010
SP - 1473
EP - 1476
BT - Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010
PB - International Speech Communication Association
ER -