MSV Challenge 2022: NPU-HC Speaker Verification System for Low-resource Indian Languages
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This report describes the NPU-HC speaker verification system submitted to the O-COCOSDA Multi-lingual Speaker Verification (MSV) Challenge 2022, which focuses on developing speaker verification systems for low-resource Asian languages. We participate in the I-MSV track, which aims to develop speaker verification systems for various Indian languages. In this challenge, we first explore different neural network frameworks for low-resource speaker verification. Then we leverage vanilla fine-tuning and weight transfer fine-tuning to transfer the out-domain pre-trained models to the in-domain Indian dataset. Specifically, the weight transfer fine-tuning aims to constrain the distance of the weights between the pre-trained model and the fine-tuned model, which takes advantage of the previously acquired discriminative ability from the large-scale out-domain datasets and avoids catastrophic forgetting and overfitting at the same time. Finally, score fusion is adopted to further improve performance. Together with the above contributions, we obtain 0.223 EER on the public evaluation set, ranking 2nd place on the leaderboard. On the private evaluation set, the EER of our submitted system is 2.123 for the constrained and unconstrained sub-tasks of the I-MSV track, leading to the 1st and 3rd place in the ranking, respectively.
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