Author:Kleynhans, NT; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2005An investigation into the performance of current speaker verification technology within a multilingual context is presented. Using the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) Multi-Language Telephone Speech Corpus (MLTS) database, the authors found ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, CJ; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006A novel approach to speech rate normalization is presented. Models are constructed to model the way in which speech rate variation of a specific speaker influences the duration of phonemes. The models are evaluated in two ways. Firstly, the ...Read more
Author:Van Heerden, CJ; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2005This paper presents an analysis of temporal information as a feature for use in speaker verification systems. The relevance of temporal information in a speaker’s utterances is investigated, both with regard to improving the robustness of ...Read more