CNN-based Text-independent Automatic Speaker Identification Using Short Utterances

Abstract

With the widespread use of voice-controlling services and devices, the research for developing robust and fast systems for automatic speaker identification had accelerated. In this paper, we present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for text-independent automatic speaker identification. The primary purpose is to identify a speaker, among many others, using a short speech segment. Most of the current researches focus on deep CNNs, which were initially designed for computer vision tasks. Besides, most of the existing speaker identification methods require audio samples longer than 3 seconds in the query phase for achieving a high accuracy. We created a CNN architecture appropriate for voice and speech-related classification tasks. We propose an optimum model that achieves 99.5% accuracy on LibriSpeech and 90% accuracy on VoxCeleb 1 dataset using only 1-second test utterances in our experiments.