A Lightweight CNN-Conformer Model for Automatic Speaker Verification

• Published in: IEEE signal processing letters Vol. 31; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Wang, Hao, Lin, Xiaobing, Zhang, Jiashu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial neural networks; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; conformer; Convolution; Convolutional neural networks; Feature extraction; Lightweight; lightweight model; network architecture; Reduction; Speaker verification; Task analysis; Transformers; Verification

Recently, Conformer has achieved tremendous success in speaker verification task. It demonstrates that Transformer-based model can achieve remarkable performance in this domain, bypassing the need for intricate pre-training procedures. However, its special macaron-style feed-forward module introduce...