Audio indexing using speaker identification

Lynn D. Wilcox; Don Kimber; Francine R. Chen

doi:10.1117/12.191878

25 October 1994 Audio indexing using speaker identification

Lynn D. Wilcox, Don Kimber, Francine R. Chen

Proceedings Volume 2277, Automatic Systems for the Identification and Inspection of Humans; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.191878
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, a technique for audio indexing based on speaker identification is proposed. When speakers are known a priori, a speaker index can be created in real time using the Viterbi algorithm to segment the audio into intervals from a single talker. Segmentation is performed using a hidden Markov model network consisting of interconnected speaker sub- networks. Speaker training data is used to initiate sub-networks for each speaker. Sub- networks can also be used to model silence, or non-speech sounds such as musical theme. When no prior knowledge of the speakers is available, unsupervised segmentation is performed using a non-real time iterative algorithm. The speaker sub-networks are first initialized, and segmentation is performed by iteratively generating a segmentation using the Viterbi algorithm, and retraining the sub-networks based on the results of the segmentation. Since the accuracy of the speaker segmentation depends on how well the speaker sub-networks are initiated, agglomerative clustering is used to approximately segment the audio according to speaker for initialization of the speaker sub-networks. The distance measure for the agglomerative clustering is a likelihood ratio in which speed segments are characterized by Gaussian distributions. The distance between merged segments is recomputed at each stage of the clustering, and a duration model is used to bias the likelihood ratio. Segmentation accuracy using agglomerative clustering initialization matches accuracy using initialization with speaker labeled data.

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Lynn D. Wilcox, Don Kimber, and Francine R. Chen "Audio indexing using speaker identification", Proc. SPIE 2277, Automatic Systems for the Identification and Inspection of Humans, (25 October 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.191878

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