Cselt-centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.a.

Michele Cavazza

Alberto Ciaramella

The device obtains several characteristic parameters from a standard sentence said by a speaker and compares them with average parameters of the same speaker stored in an internal memory and previously calculated. According to the comparison, it obtains a probability value that the sentence spoken belongs to that speaker and compares the value with a threshold normalized to the average parameter variance by a threshold calculation circuit. If the threshold is overcome, the device considers the speaker verified. A circuit determines the real instants of sentence beginning and end using a noise-adaptive threshold in order to limit between these two instants the time interval over which characteristic parameters are to be calculated. A circuit aligns as to time the characteristic parameters just calculated to the parameters of a reference sentence, obtaining standard lengths of the sounds composing the sentence spoken. A variable probability threshold is controlled by the standard deviations of the histogram of the average of the characteristic parameter vectors.

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Turin, Italy

Michele Cavazza