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Speaker recognition (IEEE Technology Navigator)
IEEE Technology Navigator, n.d.
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- What it is
- The IEEE Technology Navigator topic page on speaker recognition. It defines the field as identifying or verifying a person from the characteristics of their voice, and distinguishes it from speech recognition.
- How much weight it carries
- A short topic definition from a professional standards body rather than a standard or study. It gives the field's basic definition and is not a measure of how well any product works.
Facts taken from this source
- IEEE Technology Navigator says that in speaker identification no identity is claimed, and the system searches a database of known speakers for the closest match.
“In speaker identification, no claim is made; the system searches a database of known speakers and selects the closest match.” (Speaker Verification and Identification (section of the topic page))
- IEEE Technology Navigator defines speaker recognition as identifying or verifying a person's identity from the characteristics of their voice, and distinguishes it from speech recognition.
“Speaker recognition is the computational task of identifying or verifying the identity of an individual from characteristics of their voice.” (Introduction (What Is Speaker Recognition?))
- IEEE Technology Navigator says speaker recognition must contend with spoofing attacks, which can include synthesizing speech with text-to-speech tools.
“synthesizing speech with text-to-speech tools” (Biometric Security and Anti-Spoofing (section of the topic page))
- IEEE Technology Navigator says that in speaker verification the system accepts or rejects a claimed identity, by checking whether the voice matches stored models for the person claimed.
“In speaker verification, the system accepts or rejects a claimed identity” (Speaker Verification and Identification (section of the topic page))
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