Automatic speaker recognition by computers

Summary form only given, as follows. This paper describes a new modular speaker recognition system consisting of a set of real-time speech analysis processors and a pattern recognition software package. Within a government sponsored research project, combinations of different speech analysis procedures and different pattern recognition algorithms are compared in order to find optimal subsystems, to be applied to security systems or law enforcement, for given boundary conditions. In order to find the influence of different techniques, distance measures, quantisation band distortions on the recognition rate of given data base (2,500 utterances), a study has been carried out, results of which are being discussed.