SVMSVM: Support vector machine speaker verification methodology.

Abstract

Support vector machines with the Fisher and score-space kernels are used for text independent speaker verification to provide direct q discrimination between complete utterances. This is unlike approaches such as discriminatively trained Gaussian mixture models or other discriminative classifiers that discriminate at the frame-level only. Using the sequence-level discrimination approach we are able to achieve error-rates that are significantly better than the current state-of-the-art on the PolyVar database.