Speaker Identification (SI) is the process of identifying the speaker from a given utterance by
comparing the voice biometrics of the utterance with those utterance models stored …

From the available biometric technologies, automatic speaker recognition is one of the most
convenient and accessible ones due to abundance of mobile devices equipped with a …

Whispered speech, as an alternative speaking style for normal phonated (non-whispered)
speech, has received little attention in speech emotion recognition. Currently, speech …

Speech is a signal that includes speaker's emotion, characteristic specification, phoneme-
information etc. Various methods have been proposed for speaker recognition by extracting …

Recent years have witnessed notable advancements in the areas of speech, speaker and
language/dialect recognition. However, many of the emerging scientific principles appear to …

In this paper, automatic speaker verification using whispered speech is explored. In the past,
whispered speech has been shown to convey relevant speaker identity and gender …

Whispered speech is a natural speaking style that despite its reduced perceptibility, still
contains relevant information regarding the intended message (ie, intelligibility), as well as …

Whisper is a common means of communication used to avoid disturbing individuals or to
exchange private information. As a vocal style, whisper would be an ideal candidate for …

Variations in vocal effort can create challenges for speaker recognition systems that are
optimized for use with neutral speech. The Lombard effect and whisper are two commonly …

This study focuses on acoustic variations in speech introduced by whispering, and proposes
several strategies to improve robustness of automatic speech recognition of whispered …