Robust Cross-Domain Speaker Verification with Multi-Level Domain Adapters

Wen Huang, Bing Han, Shuai Wang, Zhengyang Chen, Yanmin Qian

Abstract: Speaker verification encounters significant challenges when confronted with diverse domain data, often resulting in performance degradation due to domain mismatch. To enhance performance in cross-domain scenarios, we introduce the Domain Adapter, an adaptable module designed for specific domains. This module learns and integrates domain-specific information with speaker-related data, mitigating domain-related variations and promoting convergence of utterance embeddings from the same speaker across diverse domains. It offers configurability across multiple levels and is adaptable to various backbone architectures. Our proposed module substantially enhances cross-domain performance with minimal parameter increments while effectively generalizing to previously unseen domains. In our experiments, we present results on the 3D-Speaker dataset, which provides acoustically-relevant attributes crucial for domain categorization and the subsequent learning of domain information. The top-performing system integrated with domain adapters achieved 10.8%, 14.8%, and 21.1% EER improvements over the baseline across three 3D-Speaker dataset trials.