Investigation of the significance of periodicity information in speaker identification

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In this thesis; general feature selection methods and especially the use of periodicity and aperiodicity information in speaker verification task is searched. A software system is constructed to obtain periodicity and aperiodicity information from speech. Periodicity and aperiodicity information is obtained by using a 16 channel filterbank and analyzing channel outputs frame by frame according to the pitch of that frame. Pitch value of a frame is also found by using periodicity algorithms. Parzen window (kernel density estimation) is used to represent each person’s selected phoneme. Constructed method is tested for different phonemes in order to find out its usability in different phonemes. Periodicity features are also used with MFCC features to find out their contribution to speaker identification problem.

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Electrical engineering.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17858

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S. Gürsoy, “Investigation of the significance of periodicity information in speaker identification,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.