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The Problem of Voice Template Aging in Speaker Recognition Systems

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Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2013)

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It is well known that device, language and environmental mismatch adversely affect speaker recognition performance. Much less attention is paid to effect of age-related voice changes on speaker recognition performance. In this paper we attempted to answer if speaker recognition algorithms have the re-sistance to age-related changes, and how often we have to update the voice bi-ometric templates. We have investigated such effects basing on the speech da-tabase collected during the period 2006-2010 and have found a clear trend of degradation of the performance of automatic speaker recognition systems in a time interval of up to 4 years.

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  1. Speech Technology Center Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yuri Matveev

  2. University ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yuri Matveev

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  1. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Miloš Železný

  2. University of West Bohemia, 306 14, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Ivan Habernal

  3. Speech and Multimodal Interfaces Laboratory, St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation for the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14-th line, 39, 199178, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrey Ronzhin

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Matveev, Y. (2013). The Problem of Voice Template Aging in Speaker Recognition Systems. In: Železný, M., Habernal, I., Ronzhin, A. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01931-4_46

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