Speaker Authentication

• Main Author: Li, Qi (Peter) (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Pattern recognition.; Biomedical engineering.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Pattern Recognition.; Biomedical Engineering.

This book focuses on use of voice as a biometric measure for personal authentication. In particular, "Speaker Recognition" covers two approaches in speaker authentication: speaker verification (SV) and verbal information verification (VIV). The SV approach attempts to verify a speaker’s id...

Table of Contents:

• What is speaker authentication?
• Statistical approaches to detection, identification and verification
• Representations of speaker characteristics for authentication purposes
• Robust endpoint detection and feature extraction
• Statistical models for dynamic pattern recognition
• Fundamental approaches to speaker verification and identification.-Discriminative training
• Relation among discriminative training objectives
• Fast discriminative training algorithms for real application
• Fast and detection-based decoding for a large group of users
• Verbal information verification
• Sequential speaker authentication
• Sequential multi-modality biometric tests. Microphone array for speaker authentication and speech recognition.