Speaker Identification in a Shouted Talking Environment Based on Novel Third-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models
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It is well known that speaker identification yields very high performance in a neutral talking environment, on the other hand, the performance has been sharply declined in a shouted talking environment. This work aims at proposing, implementing, and evaluating novel Third-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (CSPHMM3s) to improve the low performance of text-independent speaker identification in a shouted talking environment. CSPHMM3s possess combined characteristics of: Circular Hidden Markov Models (CHMMs), Third-Order Hidden Markov Models (HMM3s), and Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (SPHMMs). Our results show that CSPHMM3s are superior to each of: First-Order Left-to-Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (LTRSPHMM1s), Second-Order Left-to-Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (LTRSPHMM2s), Third-Order Left-to-Right Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (LTRSPHMM3s), First-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (CSPHMM1s), and Second-Order Circular Suprasegmental Hidden Markov Models (CSPHMM2s) in a shouted talking environment. Using our collected speech database, average speaker identification performance in a shouted talking environment based on LTRSPHMM1s, LTRSPHMM2s, LTRSPHMM3s, CSPHMM1s, CSPHMM2s, and CSPHMM3s is 74.6 78.4 performance that has been achieved based on CSPHMM3s is close to that attained based on subjective assessment by human listeners.
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