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Edge Device Speaker Verification, Thomas P. Duffy

Dissertations and Theses

The continued shrinking of processors and other physical hardware in concert with development of embeddable machine learning frameworks has enabled new use cases placing machine learning directly in the “wild”. The problem of speaker verification, for a long time, has been deployed to perform inference on systems with significant computations resources. More recently, these systems have been built for smaller, cheaper devices which can be placed in people's homes or other edge locations. Here, we aim to demonstrate that a reasonably accurate, generalizable, text-independent speaker verification system can be built, trained, and, ultimately, deployed onto a microcontroller with as a …