Combined inter-frame and intra-frame fast scoring methods for efficient implementation of GMM-based speaker verification systems

In this paper a new inter-frame fast scoring scheme is proposed for Gaussian mixture model universal background model (GMM-UBM) speaker verification systems. It is combined with a recently introduced intra-frame efficient scoring method called the sorted Gaussian mixture model (SGMM) classifier which itself uses a sorted UBM known as the sorted background model (SBM). To enhance the performance of the system a GMM identifier is applied as a post-processing block. Experimental results show that the performance of this combined method compares favorably with the baseline GMM-UBM system, while the computational load of the proposed system is greatly less than that of the baseline system.