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Enhancing GMM speaker identification by incorporating SVM speaker verification for intelligent web-based speech applications

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Speech applications, which operate a system by voice commands, facilitate web access for disabled and visually impaired users. Human-computer interactions, such as speaking and listening to web applications, provide options for developing a multimodal interaction tool in the accessible design of an intelligent web. Speaker identification and verification are essential functionalities for intelligent web programs with speech applications. This paper proposes an enhanced Gaussian mixture model (GMM) method by incorporating the information derived from the support vector machine (SVM), called EGMM-SVM, for web-based applications with speaker recognition. The EGMM-SVM improves the accuracy of the estimated likelihood scores between the speech frame and the GMM. In EGMM-SVM, SVM plays a crucial role in transmitting the quality information of the utterances from a test speaker, through the GMM when performing GMM likelihood calculations. The experimental results show that speaker recognition by using the developed EGMM-SVM with an accurate operation mechanism for Gaussian distribution derivations yields a higher recognition rate than does a conventional GMM without any considerations on the quality of test speech utterances.

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This research is partially supported by the National Science Council (NSC) in Taiwan under grant NSC 101-2221-E-150-084.

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Ding, IJ., Yen, CT. Enhancing GMM speaker identification by incorporating SVM speaker verification for intelligent web-based speech applications. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 5131–5140 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1587-5

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