Speaker Verification
Speaker verification (SV) aims to automatically authenticate a person's identity based on their voice, focusing on creating robust and accurate systems. Current research emphasizes improving the discriminative power of speaker embeddings through techniques like contrastive learning, disentangling confounding factors such as age and channel variations, and leveraging powerful pre-trained models such as WavLM and Whisper. These advancements are crucial for enhancing security in various applications, from access control to forensic investigations, and are driving ongoing efforts to improve robustness against spoofing attacks and noisy conditions.
Papers
Why does Self-Supervised Learning for Speech Recognition Benefit Speaker Recognition?
Sanyuan Chen, Yu Wu, Chengyi Wang, Shujie Liu, Zhuo Chen, Peidong Wang, Gang Liu, Jinyu Li, Jian Wu, Xiangzhan Yu, Furu Wei
Study on the Fairness of Speaker Verification Systems on Underrepresented Accents in English
Mariel Estevez, Luciana Ferrer
Self-Supervised Speech Representations Preserve Speech Characteristics while Anonymizing Voices
Abner Hernandez, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro, Juan Camilo Vásquez-Correa, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Andreas Maier, Seung Hee Yang
Anti-Spoofing Using Transfer Learning with Variational Information Bottleneck
Youngsik Eom, Yeonghyeon Lee, Ji Sub Um, Hoirin Kim