A transfer learning method for PLDA-based speaker verification
Qingyang Hong, Jun Zhang, Lin Li, Lihong Wan, Feng Tong
Abstract
Currently, the state-of-the-art speaker verification system is based on i-vector and PLDA. However, PLDA requires tens of thousands of development data from many speakers. This makes it difficult to learn the PLDA parameters for a domain with scarce data. In this paper, we propose an effective transfer learning method based on Bayesian joint probability in which Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the source domain and the target domain is added as a regularization factor. This hypothesis could utilize the development data of source domain to help find a better optimal solution of PLDA parameters for the target domain. Experimental results based on the NIST SRE and Switchboard corpus demonstrate that our proposed method could produce the largest gain of performance compared with the traditional PLDA and the other adaptation approach.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icassp2016_atransferlearnin,
title = {A transfer learning method for PLDA-based speaker verification},
author = {Qingyang Hong and Jun Zhang and Lin Li and Lihong Wan and Feng Tong},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2016},
year = {2016}
}