Channel-compensated low-level features for speaker recognition
US10347256B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 19, 2017 |
| Grant date | Jul 9, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 16, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L19/028
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for generating channel-compensated features of a speech signal includes a channel noise simulator that degrades the speech signal, a feed forward convolutional neural network (CNN) that generates channel-compensated features of the degraded speech signal, and a loss function that computes a difference between the channel-compensated features and handcrafted features for the same raw speech signal. Each loss result may be used to update connection weights of the CNN until a predetermined threshold loss is satisfied, and the CNN may be used as a front-end for a deep neural network (DNN) for speaker recognition/verification. The DNN may include convolutional layers, a bottleneck features layer, multiple fully-connected layers and an output layer. The bottleneck features may be used to update connection weights of the convolutional layers, and dropout may be applied to the convolutional layers.
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