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Phonetic forensics is now widely used. Indeed, in some cases, the voice can be the only potential proof for investigations. In order to evaluate the performance of Forensic Voice Comparison domain (FVC), we will study two factors limiting the robustness of verification task. One depends on the type of transmission channel (telephone, microphone, etc.) and the other is related to the physiological difference between the speakers’ voices. Our work consist in adapting an open source platform for Automatic Speaker Recognition (ASR), “ALIZE”, for use in the forensic domain to estimate and represent the voice as an exhibit. For this, we will study and compare the two models GMM-UBM and i-vectors to evaluate performance.
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Zergat, K.Y., Kahil, Y., Amrouche, A. (2021). Can Judges Trust the I-Vectors Scores?: A Comparative Study of Voices Comparison in the Forensic Domain. In: Senouci, M.R., Boudaren, M.E.Y., Sebbak, F., Mataoui, M. (eds) Advances in Computing Systems and Applications. CSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 199. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69418-0_6
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