음성과학 (Speech Sciences)
- 제14권1호
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- Pages.163-174
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- 2007
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- 1226-5276(pISSN)
Modified GMM Training for Inexact Observation and Its Application to Speaker Identification
- Kim, Jin-Young (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Eng., Chonnam National Univeristy) ;
- Min, So-Hee (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Eng., Chonnam National Univeristy) ;
- Na, Seung-You (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Eng., Chonnam National Univeristy) ;
- Choi, Hong-Sub (Dept. of Electronics Eng., Daejin University) ;
- Choi, Seung-Ho (Dept. of Multimedia Eng., Dongshin University)
- 발행 : 2007.03.31
초록
All observation has uncertainty due to noise or channel characteristics. This uncertainty should be counted in the modeling of observation. In this paper we propose a modified optimization object function of a GMM training considering inexact observation. The object function is modified by introducing the concept of observation confidence as a weighting factor of probabilities. The optimization of the proposed criterion is solved using a common EM algorithm. To verify the proposed method we apply it to the speaker recognition domain. The experimental results of text-independent speaker identification with VidTimit DB show that the error rate is reduced from 14.8% to 11.7% by the modified GMM training.