Extracting accent information from Urdu speech for forensic speaker recognition

Authors

FALAK TAHIR
SAJID SALEEM
AYAZ AHMAD

DOI

10.3906/elk-1812-152

Abstract

This paper presents a new method for extraction of accent information from Urdu speech signals. Accent is used in speaker recognition system especially in forensic cases and plays a vital role in discriminating people of different groups, communities and origins due to their different speaking styles. The proposed method is based on Gaussian mixture model-universal background model (GMM-UBM), mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), and a data augmentation (DA) process. The DA process appends features to base MFCC features and improves the accent extraction and forensic speaker recognition performances of GMM-UBM. Experiments are performed on an Urdu forensic speaker corpus. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the equal error rate and the accuracy of GMM-UBM by 2.5 % and 3.7 %, respectively.

Keywords

Forensic, classification, speaker recognition, speech features

First Page

3763

Last Page

3778

Recommended Citation

TAHIR, FALAK; SALEEM, SAJID; and AHMAD, AYAZ (2019) "Extracting accent information from Urdu speech for forensic speaker recognition," Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 27: No. 5, Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1812-152
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol27/iss5/35