[Speechsc] FW: MRCPV2 Verification: Insufficient/bad speech

[Nik Waldron <nik.waldron at kaz-group.com>]

A resubmit of the previous question accidentally sent as Rich Text

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From: Nik Waldron 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 9:52 AM
To: 'speechsc at ietf.org'
Subject: MRCPV2 Verification: Insufficient/bad speech

My question regards the training phase in a speaker verification session:
My reading of the draft RFC is that a training session may be initiated by
a VERIFY call, and that the speech data streamed via RTP is then used to
build the model.  Implicit in the design is that when a speaker is deemed
to have finished a turn in the dialog (say answering a voice enrolment
question), the verification system will return a VERIFICATION-COMPLETE.  I
am currently assuming that this is a detected "end-of-speech" condition.
Further VERIFY calls may then be used to refine the speaker model.

My confusion arises when speech has been detected, but the speech is for
some reason unsuitable to complete training with (e.g. there is not enough
speech, the speech is too noisy etc.).  How should the verifier respond?  

In the use case I am working on the desired behaviour is for the client to
VERIFY again on the same session and pass through more speech data, but I
can't seem to find a suitable error code/completion cause (the generic
"error" completion code seems to suit a serious internal error only).  I
was expecting an "insufficient data" and/or "bad quality data" type
feedback to the client.

Alternatively is the timing of the VERIFY-COMPLETE message not tied to
dialogue turns?

I have to now assumed that MRCPv2 client (e.g. a VXML browser) did not
have its own mechanism for detecting the end of a dialogue turn, hence it
needed notification in this case.

Can someone let me know which interpretation is correct, or what the
correct behaviour of a MRCPv2 server should be?

Regards,


NIK WALDRON
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