Speaker recognition using isomorphic graph attention network based pooling on self-supervised representation

Abstract

The emergence of self-supervised representation (i.e., wav2vec 2.0) allows speaker-recognition approaches to process spoken signals through foundation models built on speech data. Nevertheless, effective fusion on the representation requires further investigating, due to the inclusion of fixed or sub-optimal temporal pooling strategies. Despite of improved strategies considering graph learning and graph attention factors, non-injective aggregation still exists in the approaches, which may influence the performance for speaker recognition. In this regard, we propose a speaker recognition approach using Isomorphic Graph ATtention network (IsoGAT) on self-supervised representation. The proposed approach contains three modules of representation learning, graph attention, and aggregation, jointly considering learning on the self-supervised representation and the IsoGAT. Then, we perform experiments for speaker recognition tasks on VoxCeleb1&2 datasets, with the corresponding experimental results demonstrating the recognition performance for the proposed approach, compared with existing pooling approaches on the self-supervised representation.