Investigating Text-Independent Speaker Verification Systems Under Varied Data Conditions

Das, Rohan Kumar; Prasanna, S. R. Mahadeva

doi:10.1007/s00034-019-01028-x

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“…With the rising importance of practical applications in every field, the short utterance scenario in speaker recognition has gained attention in the recent years [35][36][37][38][39]. The same can be applicable in this case of identifying singers, when there is a short segment of song available.…”

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On the Importance of Audio-Source Separation for Singer Identification in Polyphonic Music

Sharma

Das

2019

Interspeech 2019

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Singer identification is to automatically identify the singer in a music recording, such as a polyphonic song. A song has two major acoustic components that are singing vocals and background accompaniment. Although identifying singers is similar to speaker identification, it is challenging due to the interference of background accompaniment on the singer-specific information in singing vocals. We believe that separating the background accompaniment from the singing vocal will help us to overcome the interference. In this work, we extract the singing vocals from polyphonic songs using Wave-U-Net based audio-source separation approach. The extracted singing vocals are then used in i-vector based singer identification system. Further, we explore different state-of-the-art audio-source separation methods to establish the role of considered method in application to singer identification. The proposed singer identification framework achieves an absolute accuracy improvement of 5.66% over the baseline without audio-source separation.

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