Disentangling Age and Identity with a Mutual Information Minimization Approach for Cross-Age Speaker Verification

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Fengrun, Zhou, Wangjin, Liu, Yiming, Geng, Wang, Shan, Yahui, Zhang, Chen
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author Zhang, Fengrun
Zhou, Wangjin
Liu, Yiming
Geng, Wang
Shan, Yahui
Zhang, Chen
author_facet Zhang, Fengrun
Zhou, Wangjin
Liu, Yiming
Geng, Wang
Shan, Yahui
Zhang, Chen
contents There has been an increasing research interest in cross-age speaker verification~(CASV). However, existing speaker verification systems perform poorly in CASV due to the great individual differences in voice caused by aging. In this paper, we propose a disentangled representation learning framework for CASV based on mutual information~(MI) minimization. In our method, a backbone model is trained to disentangle the identity- and age-related embeddings from speaker information, and an MI estimator is trained to minimize the correlation between age- and identity-related embeddings via MI minimization, resulting in age-invariant speaker embeddings. Furthermore, by using the age gaps between positive and negative samples, we propose an aging-aware MI minimization loss function that allows the backbone model to focus more on the vocal changes with large age gaps. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods on multiple Cross-Age test sets of Vox-CA.
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spellingShingle Disentangling Age and Identity with a Mutual Information Minimization Approach for Cross-Age Speaker Verification
Zhang, Fengrun
Zhou, Wangjin
Liu, Yiming
Geng, Wang
Shan, Yahui
Zhang, Chen
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
There has been an increasing research interest in cross-age speaker verification~(CASV). However, existing speaker verification systems perform poorly in CASV due to the great individual differences in voice caused by aging. In this paper, we propose a disentangled representation learning framework for CASV based on mutual information~(MI) minimization. In our method, a backbone model is trained to disentangle the identity- and age-related embeddings from speaker information, and an MI estimator is trained to minimize the correlation between age- and identity-related embeddings via MI minimization, resulting in age-invariant speaker embeddings. Furthermore, by using the age gaps between positive and negative samples, we propose an aging-aware MI minimization loss function that allows the backbone model to focus more on the vocal changes with large age gaps. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other methods on multiple Cross-Age test sets of Vox-CA.
title Disentangling Age and Identity with a Mutual Information Minimization Approach for Cross-Age Speaker Verification
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15974