Author: Mitchell McLaren

In this work, we extend the TBC method, proposing a new similarity metric for selecting training data that results in significant gains over the one proposed in the original work.

This article focuses on speaker recognition using speech acquired using a single distant or far-field microphone in an indoors environment.

In this study, our aim is analyzing the behavior of the speaker recognition systems based on speaker embeddings toward different front-end features, including the standard MFCC, as well as PNCC, and PLP.

Approaches found to provide robustness in multi-domain LID include a domain-and-language-weighted Gaussian backend classifier, duration-aware calibration, and a source normalized multi-resolution neural network backend.

In this study, we aim to explore some of the fundamental requirements for building a good speaker embeddings extractor. We analyze the impact of voice activity detection, types of degradation, the amount of degraded data, and number of speakers required for a good network.

In this paper, we investigate several automatic transcription schemes for using raw bilingual broadcast news data in semi-supervised bilingual acoustic model training.

We benchmark these approaches on several distinctly different databases, after we describe our SRICON-UAM team system submission for the NIST 2016 SRE. 

In this paper, we focus on situations in which either (1) the system-modeled languages are not observed during use or (2) the test data contains OOS languages that are unseen during modeling or calibration. 

This article is concerned with the issue of calibration in the context of Deep Neural Network (DNN) based approaches to speaker recognition. We propose a hybrid alignment framework, which stems from our previous work in DNN senone alignment, that uses the bottleneck features only for the alignment of features during statistics calculation.

This article provides details of the SITW speaker recognition challenge and analysis of evaluation results. We provide an analysis of some of the top performing systems submitted during the evaluation and provide future research directions.

The Speakers in the Wild (SITW) speaker recognition database contains hand-annotated speech samples from open-source media for the purpose of benchmarking text-independent speaker recognition technology.

We present the work done by our group for the 2015 language recognition evaluation (LRE) organized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).