Improvement of GMM Model Using PSK for Spoken Language Recognition Systems

Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a simple and effective method for statistical modeling of the feature space which is widely used in spoken language recognition systems and EM algorithm is used for training the parameters of this model. In this paper, considering the weakness of GMM models, a new model named PAW-GMM is proposed. In this model, the power of each component of GMM in discriminating one language from the others is considered for determining the weights of components. Since PAW-GMM considers the discriminating property of GMM components, it could increase the accuracy of language recognition systems. Also one of the problems of GMM-PSK-SVM which is one of the best GMM models is the high complexity especially for high number of languages. Therefore UBM-PSK-SVM is proposed that has the same accuracy as GMM-PSK-SVM but lower complexity. Experiments on four languages of OGI corpus show the efficiency of the proposed techniques.