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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Verification of Multi-Class Recognition Decision: A Classification Approach

Tomoko MATSUI, Frank K. SOONG, Biing-Hwang JUANG

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We investigate strategies to improve the utterance verification performance using a 2-class pattern classification approach, including: utilizing N-best candidate scores, modifying segmentation boundaries, applying background and out-of-vocabulary filler models, incorporating contexts, and minimizing verification errors via discriminative training. A connected-digit database recorded in a noisy, moving car with a hands-free microphone mounted on the sun-visor is used to evaluate the verification performance. The equal error rate (EER) of word verification is employed as the sole performance measure. All factors and their effects on the verification performance are presented in detail. The EER is reduced from 29%, using the standard likelihood ratio test, down to 21.4%, when all features are properly integrated.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E88-D No.3 pp.455-462
Publication Date
2005/03/01
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DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.3.455
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Corpus-Based Speech Technologies)
Category
Spoken Language Systems

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