On the influence of language similarity in non-target speaker verification trials

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Main Authors: Reuter, Paul M., Jessen, Michael
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author Reuter, Paul M.
Jessen, Michael
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Jessen, Michael
contents In this paper, we investigate the influence of language similarity in cross-lingual non-target speaker verification trials using a state-of-the-art speaker verification system, ECAPA-TDNN, trained on multilingual and monolingual variants of the VoxCeleb dataset. Our analysis of the score distribution patterns on multilingual Globalphone and LDC CTS reveals a clustering effect in speaker comparisons involving a training language, whereby the choice of comparison language only minimally impacts scores. Conversely, we observe a language similarity effect in trials involving languages not included in the training set of the speaker verification system, with scores correlating with language similarity measured by a language classification system, especially when using multilingual training data.
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spellingShingle On the influence of language similarity in non-target speaker verification trials
Reuter, Paul M.
Jessen, Michael
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
In this paper, we investigate the influence of language similarity in cross-lingual non-target speaker verification trials using a state-of-the-art speaker verification system, ECAPA-TDNN, trained on multilingual and monolingual variants of the VoxCeleb dataset. Our analysis of the score distribution patterns on multilingual Globalphone and LDC CTS reveals a clustering effect in speaker comparisons involving a training language, whereby the choice of comparison language only minimally impacts scores. Conversely, we observe a language similarity effect in trials involving languages not included in the training set of the speaker verification system, with scores correlating with language similarity measured by a language classification system, especially when using multilingual training data.
title On the influence of language similarity in non-target speaker verification trials
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02777