In this article we present a Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based version of the VOCALISE (Voice Comparison and Analysis of the Likelihood of Speech Evidence) forensic automatic speaker recognition system. DNNs mark a new phase in the evolution of automatic speaker recognition technology, providing a powerful framework for extracting highly-discriminative speaker-specific features from a recording of speech. The latest version of VOCALISE aims to preserve the ‘open-box’ philosophy of its predecessors, offering the forensic practitioner flexibility in the configuration and training of all parts of the automatic speaker recognition pipeline. VOCALISE continues to support both legacy and state-of-the-art speaker modelling algorithms, the latest of which is a DNN-based ‘x-vector’ framework, a state-of-the-art approach that leverages a DNN to extract compact speaker representations. Here, we introduce the x-vector framework and its implementation in VOCALISE, and demonstrate its powerful performance capabilities on some forensically relevant data.
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