1. Daniel May Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mississippi State University Analysis of Correlation Dimension Across Phones

2. 10/20/06 Page 1 of 7 Outline Speaker Recognition with Correlation Dimension Analysis of Correlation Dimension of Phones (WSJ) Journal Paper Schedule Thesis?

3. 10/20/06 Page 2 of 7 Speaker Recognition with Correlation Dimension Results suggest that correlation dimension doesn’t provide any speaker specific information Still running experiments with adjusted parameters.

4. 10/20/06 Page 3 of 7 Histograms for Various Phones

5. 10/20/06 Page 4 of 7 KL Divergence of Phones Stops Affricatives Fricatives Nasals Glides Vowels Vowels Glides Nasals Fricatives Affricatives Stops b d g p t k Affricatives jh ch Fricatives s sh z zh f th v dh Nasals m n ng Glides l r w y hh Vowels iy ih eh ey ae aa aw ay ah ao oy ow uh uw er

6. 10/20/06 Page 5 of 7 Journal Paper Currently, we have a deadline set for November 15 th. Still discussing which journals to submit to.

7. 10/20/06 Page 6 of 7 Thesis Originally planned to focus on speaker recognition with invariant features Preliminary findings suggest that invariants may not provide speaker-specific information for all types of speech.