<p>From the reviews:</p><p>“The book covers the latest research advances within the domain of speaker authentication. … Every chapter is standalone and therefore the reader can choose and fully examine only his/her theme of interest. All the theoretical findings are tested on real-world applications and results demonstrate the potential of the presented approaches; the book is thus useful both for teaching and research, as well as for industry.” (Catalin Stoean, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1233, 2012)</p><p>“This book is, among other things, proof that to be great, a technical reference does not necessarily need to be huge and ‘all inclusive.’ … techniques described, especially those for pattern recognition, are general enough to be used in almost any other area where there is a need for machine classification. … This is a superb technical book, which will also be useful outside of the speech processing area. I highly recommend it for graduate studies or as a specialized reference for those in industry.” (Vladimir Botchev, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2012)</p>
What is speaker authentication?.- Statistical approaches to detection, identification and verification.- Representations of speaker characteristics for authentication purposes.- Robust endpoint detection and feature extraction.- Statistical models for dynamic pattern recognition.- Fundamental approaches to speaker verification and identification.-Discriminative training.- Relation among discriminative training objectives.- Fast discriminative training algorithms for real application.- Fast and detection-based decoding for a large group of users.- Verbal information verification.- Sequential speaker authentication.- Sequential multi-modality biometric tests. Microphone array for speaker authentication and speech recognition.