Synonyms
Voice biometric; Voice recognition
Definition
Speaker recognition is the task of recognizing people from their voices. Speaker recognition is based on the extraction and modeling of acoustic features of speech that can differentiate individuals. These features convey two kinds of biometric information: physiological properties (anatomical configuration of the vocal apparatus) and behavioral traits (speaking style). Automatic speaker recognition technology declines into four major tasks, speaker identification, speaker verification, speaker segmentation, and speaker tracking. While these tasks are quite different for their potential applications, the underlying technologies are yet closely related.
Introduction
Speaking is the most natural means of communication between humans. Driven by a great deal of potential applications in human-machine interaction, automated systems have been developed to automatically extract the different pieces of information conveyed in the speech...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
S. Furui, 50 years of progress in speech and speaker recognition, in Proceedings of SPECOM, Patras, 2005, pp. 1–9
L. Kersta, Voiceprint identification. Nature 196, 1253–1257 (1962)
L.J. Boe, Forensic voice identification in France. Speech Commun. 31, 205–224 (2000)
B.S. Atal, Automatic recognition of speakers from their voices. Proc. IEEE 64, 460–475 (1976)
J.M. Naik, L.P. Netsch, G.R. Doddington, Speaker verification over long distance telephone lines, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Glasgow, 1989, pp. 524–527
A. Jain, A. Ross, S. Prebhakar, An introduction to biometric recognition. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol. Special Issue on Image- and Video-Based Biometrics 14(1), 4–20 (2004)
B. Fauve, H. Bredin, W. Karam, F. Verdet, A. Mayoue, G. Chollet, J. Hennebert, R. Lewis, J. Mason, C. Mokbel, D. Petrovska, Some results from the biosecure talking face evaluation campaign, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, 2008
A. Humm, J. Hennebert, R. Ingold, Spoken signature for user authentication. SPIE J. Electron. Imaging, Special Section on Biometrics: ASUI 17(1) (2008)
L. Rabiner, B.H. Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition (Prentice Hall, 1993)
J. Picone, Signal modeling techniques in speech recognition. Proc. IEEE 81(9), 1214–1247 (1993)
D. Reynolds, Automatic speaker recognition using gaussian mixture speaker models. Linc. Lab. J. 8(2), 173–191 (1995)
D. Reynolds, An overview of automatic speaker recognition technology, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, vol. 4, 2002, pp. 4072–4075
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Hennebert, J. (2015). Speaker Recognition, Overview. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_198
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_198
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4899-7487-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-4899-7488-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering