A Review on Speaker Recognition

Abstract

Automatic speaker recognition system plays a vital role in verifying identity in many e-commerce applications as well as in general business interactions, forensics, and law enforcement. Today many employees have access to their company's information system by logging in from home. Also Internet services and telephone banking are widely used by private and corporate sectors. Therefore to protect one's resources or information confidentially with simple password is not consistent and secure in the technological world of today. There are two major applications of speaker recognition technologies. If the speaker claims to be of an assured identity and the voice is used to verify this claim, it is called as verification or authentication. On the other hand, identification is the work of determining an unknown speaker's identity. This paper depicts the fundamentals of automatic speaker recognition, concerning feature extraction and speaker modeling.