Large-scale Speaker Retrieval on Random Speaker Variability Subspace.

This paper describes a fast speaker search system to retrieve segments of the same voice identity in the large-scale data. Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) is a fast nearest neighbor search algorithm and the recent study shows that LSH enables quick retrieval of a relevant voice in the large-scale data in conjunction with i-vector while maintaining accuracy. In this paper, we proposed Random Speaker-variability Subspace (RSS) projection to map a data into hash tables. We hypothesized that rather than projecting on random subspace, projecting on speaker variability space would give more chance to put the same speaker representation into the same hash bins, so we can use less number of hash tables. We use Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) to generate speaker variability subspace projection matrix. Additionally, a random subset of the speaker in the training data was chosen for speaker label for LDA to produce multiple RSS. From the experimental result, the proposed approach shows 100 times and 7 times faster than the linear search and LSH, respectively.