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Conventional Acoustic Features Based Gammachirp Filterbank for Text Independent Speaker Identification System in Noisy Environments
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irecos.v10i3.5235
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In this paper we study the performance of a novel feature extraction for both of MFCC and PLP features based Gammachirp filterbank in a state-of-the-art text independent speaker identification system (SID). The novel feature for extracting these parameters is based on an auditory periphery model for robust speaker identification system which mimics the human auditory system characteristics and relies on the Gammachirp filterbank to imitate the cochlea frequency resolution with nonlinear resolution according to the equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB) scale. Our evaluations show that the proposed feature performs considerably better than conventional acoustic features. We further demonstrate that integrating the proposed feature in various noisy environments yields promising recognition performance.
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