In this paper, we describe a prototype speaker identification system using auto-associative neural network (AANN) and formant features. Our experiments demonstrate that formants extracted from difference spectrum perform significantly better than formants extracted from normal spectrum for the task of speaker identification. We also demonstrate that formants from difference spectrum provide comparable speaker identification performance with that of features such as weighted linear predictive Cepstral coefficients and Mel-Frequency Cepstral coefficients. Finally, we combine the results of formant based system and linear predictive Cepstral coefficients based system to achieve 100% identification performance.
Cite as: Prahallad, K., Sudhakar, V., Ranganatham, V., Bharat, K.M., Debashish, S.R. (2006) Significance of formants from difference spectrum for speaker identification. Proc. Interspeech 2006, paper 1583-Tue1CaP.1, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2006-167
@inproceedings{prahallad06_interspeech,
author={Kishore Prahallad and Varanasi Sudhakar and Veluru Ranganatham and Krishna M. Bharat and S. Roy Debashish},
title={{Significance of formants from difference spectrum for speaker identification}},
year=2006,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2006},
pages={paper 1583-Tue1CaP.1},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2006-167}
}