In this paper, an information theoretical approach to select features for speaker recognition systems is proposed. Conventional approaches having a fixed interval of analysis frames are not appropriate to represent dynamically varying characteristics of speech signals. To maximize the speakerrelated information varied by the characteristics of speech signals, we propose an information theory based feature selection method where features are selected to have minimum-redundancy with in selected features but maximumrelevancy to training speaker models.Experimental results verify that the proposed method reduces the error rates of speaker verification systems by 27.37 % in NIST 2002 database.
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