Speaker Recognition using Deep Belief Networks

Abstract: Short time spectral features such as mel frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCCs) have been previously deployed in state of the art speaker recognition systems, however lesser heed has been paid to short term spectral features that can be learned by generative learning models from speech signals. Higher dimensional encoders such as deep belief networks (DBNs) could improve performance in speaker recognition tasks by better modelling the statistical structure of sound waves. In this paper, we use short term spectral features learnt from the DBN augmented with MFCC features to perform the task of speaker recognition. Using our features, we achieved a recognition accuracy of 0.95 as compared to 0.90 when using standalone MFCC features on the ELSDSR dataset.