Harmonic Structure Transform for Speaker Recognition

We evaluate a new filterbank structure, yielding the harmonic structure cepstral coefficients (HSCCs), on a mismatched-session closed-set speaker classification task. The novelty of the filterbank lies in its averaging of energy at frequencies related by harmonicity rather than by adjacency. Improvements are presented which achieve a 37%rel reduction in error rate under these conditions. The improved features are combined with a similar Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) system to yield error rate reductions of 32%rel, suggesting that HSCCs offer information which is complimentary to that available to today's MFCC-based systems.