Effects of Vocal Effort and Speaking Style on Text-Independent Speaker Verification
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@MISC{Shriberg_effectsof,
author = {Elizabeth Shriberg and Martin Graciarena and Harry Bratt and Andreas Kathol and Sachin Kajarekar and Huda Jameel and Colleen Richey and Fred Goodman},
title = {Effects of Vocal Effort and Speaking Style on Text-Independent Speaker Verification},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
We study the question of how intrinsic variations (associated with the speaker rather than the recording environment) affect text-independent speaker verification performance. Experiments using the SRI-FRTIV corpus, which systematically varies both vocal effort and speaking style, reveal that (1) “furtive” speech poses a significant challenge; (2) conversations and interviews, despite stylistic differences, are well matched; (3) high-effort oration, in contrast to high-effort read speech, shares characteristics with conversational and interview styles; and (4) train/test pairings are generally symmetrical. Implications for further work in the area are discussed. Index Terms: speaker recognition, vocal effort, speaking style, intrinsic variation, furtive speech, interview speech, read
