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An extreme learning machine approach for speaker recognition

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Over the last two decades, automatic speaker recognition has been an interesting and challenging problem to speech researchers. It can be classified into two different categories, speaker identification and speaker verification. In this paper, a new classifier, extreme learning machine, is examined on the text-independent speaker verification task and compared with SVM classifier. Extreme learning machine (ELM) classifiers have been proposed for generalized single hidden layer feedforward networks with a wide variety of hidden nodes. They are extremely fast in learning and perform well on many artificial and real regression and classification applications. The database used to evaluate the ELM and SVM classifiers is ELSDSR corpus, and the Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients were extracted and used as the input to the classifiers. Empirical studies have shown that ELM classifiers and its variants could perform better than SVM classifiers on the dataset provided with less training time.

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    Yuan Lan, Zongjiang Hu, Yeng Chai Soh & Guang-Bin Huang

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Lan, Y., Hu, Z., Soh, Y.C. et al. An extreme learning machine approach for speaker recognition. Neural Comput & Applic 22, 417–425 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-012-0946-x

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