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Recently, the speaker recognition techniques have been widely attractive for their extensive use in many fields, such as speech communications, domestic services, security and access control and smart terminals. Today’s interactive devices like smart-phone assistants and smart speakers need to deal with short duration speech segments. However, existing speaker recognition applications perform poorly when short utterances are available and require relatively long speech to perform well. Aiming at solving this problem, we introduce in this paper, a novel method to enhance the speaker recognition capability with short utterance speaker recognition applications. For this purpose, we considered new deep neural network architectures based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN). The proposed method is evaluated with the standard i-vector based on Probabilistic Linear discriminant analysis (PLDA) approach. The experimental results show that our model could outperform the i-vector -PLDA baseline system and enhance the speaker recognition capability when significant and short utterance duration are used.
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Chakroun, R., Frikha, M. A deep learning approach for text-independent speaker recognition with short utterances. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 33111–33133 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14942-9
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