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Extraction of robust features from noisy speech signals is one of the challenging problems in speaker recognition. As bispectrum and all higher order spectra for Gaussian process are identically zero, it removes the additive white Gaussian noise while preserving the magnitude and phase information of original signal. The spectrum of original signal can be recovered from its noisy version using this property. Robust Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) are extracted from the estimated spectral magnitude (denoted as Bispectral-MFCC (BMFCC)). The effectiveness of BMFCC has been tested on TIMIT and SGGS databases in noisy environment. The proposed BMFCC features yield 95.30 %, 97.26 % and 94.22 % speaker recognition rate on TIMIT, SGGS and SGGS2 databases, respectively for 20 dB SNR whereas these values for 0 dB SNR are 45.84 %, 50.79 % and 44.98 %. The experimental results show the superiority of the proposed technique compared to conventional methods for all databases.
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Ajmera, P.K., Nehe, N.S., Jadhav, D.V. et al. Robust feature extraction from spectrum estimated using bispectrum for speaker recognition. Int J Speech Technol 15, 433–440 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-012-9153-5
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