Robustness-Related Issues in Speaker Recognition [Paperback]

This book presents an overview of speaker recognition technologies with an emphasis on dealing with robustness issues. Firstly, the book gives an overview of speaker recognition, such as the basic system framework, categories under different criteria, performance evaluation and its development history. Secondly, with regard to robustness issues, the book presents three categories, including environment-related issues, speaker-related issues and application-oriented issues. For each category, the book describes the current hot topics, existing technologies, and potential research focuses in the future. The book is a useful reference book and self-learning guide for early researchers working in the field of robust speech recognition.

Speaker Recognition: Introduction.- Environmental-Related Robustness Issues.- Speaker-Related Robustness Issues.- Application-Oriented Robustness Issues.- Conclusions and Future Work.

Thomas Fang Zheng (M'99-SM'06) received his Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997. He is now a Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Speech and Language Technologies, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on speech and language processing. He has published more than 250 papers and plays active roles in a number of communities, including the Chinese Corpus Consortium (council chair), the Standing Committee of Chinas National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (chair), Subcommittee 2 on Human Biometrics Application of Technical Committee 100 on Security Protection Alarm Systems of Standardization Administration of China (deputy director), the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) (Vice-President and Distinguished Lecturer 2012-2013), Chinese Information Processing Society of China (council member and Speech Information Subcommittee Chair), the Acoustical Society of China (council member), and thelÓ.