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{{Publication
| published = true
| date = 2007-09-25
| authors = Patrick Kenny, Najim Dehak, Réda Dehak, Vishwa Gupta, Pierre Dumouchel
| title = The Role of Speaker Factors in the NIST Extended Data Task
| booktitle = Proceedings of the Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (IEEE-Odyssey 2008)
| address = Stellenbosch, South Africa
| abstract = We tested factor analysis models having various numbers of speaker factors on the core condition and the extended data condition of the 2006 NIST speaker recognition evaluation. In order to ensure strict disjointness between training and test sets, the factor analysis models were trained without using any of the data made available for the 2005 evaluation. The factor analysis training set consisted primarily of Switchboard data and so was to some degree mismatched with the 2006 test data (drawn from the Mixer collection). Consequently, our initial results were not as good as those submitted for the 2006 evaluation. However we found that we could compensate for this by a simple modification to our score normalization strategy, namely by using 1000 z-norm utterances in zt-norm. Our purpose in varying the number of speaker factors was to evaluate the eigenvoiceMAP and classicalMAP components of the inter-speaker variability model in factor analysis. We found that on the core condition (i.e. 2--3 minutes of enrollment data), only the eigenvoice MAP component plays a useful role. On the other hand, on the extended data condition (i.e. 15--20 minutes of enrollment data) both the classical MAP component and the eigenvoice component proved to be useful provided that the number of speaker factors was limited. Our best result on the extended data condition (all trials) was an equal error rate of 2.2% and a detection cost of 0.011.
| lrdenewsdate = 2007-09-25
| type = inproceedings
| id = kenny.08.odyssey
| bibtex = 
@InProceedings<nowiki>{</nowiki>	  kenny.08.odyssey,
  author	= <nowiki>{</nowiki>Patrick Kenny and Najim Dehak and R\'eda Dehak and Vishwa
		  Gupta and Pierre Dumouchel<nowiki>}</nowiki>,
  title		= <nowiki>{</nowiki>The Role of Speaker Factors in the <nowiki>{</nowiki>NIST<nowiki>}</nowiki> Extended Data
		  Task<nowiki>}</nowiki>,
  booktitle	= <nowiki>{</nowiki>Proceedings of the Speaker and Language Recognition
		  Workshop (IEEE-Odyssey 2008)<nowiki>}</nowiki>,
  year		= 2008,
  address	= <nowiki>{</nowiki>Stellenbosch, South Africa<nowiki>}</nowiki>,
  month		= jan,
  abstract	= <nowiki>{</nowiki>We tested factor analysis models having various numbers of
		  speaker factors on the core condition and the extended data
		  condition of the 2006 NIST speaker recognition evaluation.
		  In order to ensure strict disjointness between training and
		  test sets, the factor analysis models were trained without
		  using any of the data made available for the 2005
		  evaluation. The factor analysis training set consisted
		  primarily of Switchboard data and so was to some degree
		  mismatched with the 2006 test data (drawn from the Mixer
		  collection). Consequently, our initial results were not as
		  good as those submitted for the 2006 evaluation. However we
		  found that we could compensate for this by a simple
		  modification to our score normalization strategy, namely by
		  using 1000 z-norm utterances in zt-norm. Our purpose in
		  varying the number of speaker factors was to evaluate the
		  eigenvoiceMAP and classicalMAP components of the
		  inter-speaker variability model in factor analysis. We
		  found that on the core condition (i.e. 2--3 minutes of
		  enrollment data), only the eigenvoice MAP component plays a
		  useful role. On the other hand, on the extended data
		  condition (i.e. 15--20 minutes of enrollment data) both the
		  classical MAP component and the eigenvoice component proved
		  to be useful provided that the number of speaker factors
		  was limited. Our best result on the extended data condition
		  (all trials) was an equal error rate of 2.2\% and a
		  detection cost of 0.011. <nowiki>}</nowiki>
<nowiki>}</nowiki>

}}