The CORAL++ Algorithm for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Speaker Recogntion

TL;DR

The paper introduces CORAL++, an improved unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm for speaker recognition that enhances model robustness against domain mismatch, outperforming previous methods on standard evaluation datasets.

Contribution

It proposes a novel optimization of the CORAL algorithm, called CORAL++, specifically designed for unsupervised domain adaptation in speaker recognition.

Findings

CORAL++ reduces EER by 9.40% relative compared to CORAL.

The method improves robustness of speaker recognition systems in unseen domains.

Experimental validation on NIST SRE datasets demonstrates effectiveness.

Abstract

State-of-the-art speaker recognition systems are trained with a large amount of human-labeled training data set. Such a training set is usually composed of various data sources to enhance the modeling capability of models. However, in practical deployment, unseen condition is almost inevitable. Domain mismatch is a common problem in real-life applications due to the statistical difference between the training and testing data sets. To alleviate the degradation caused by domain mismatch, we propose a new feature-based unsupervised domain adaptation algorithm. The algorithm we propose is a further optimization based on the well-known CORrelation ALignment (CORAL), so we call it CORAL++. On the NIST 2019 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE19), we use SRE18 CTS set as the development set to verify the effectiveness of CORAL++. With the typical x-vector/PLDA setup, the CORAL++ outperforms the CORAL by 9.40% relatively on EER.