Integrating Frequency Translational Invariance in TDNNs and Frequency Positional Information in 2D ResNets to Enhance Speaker Verification

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This paper describes the IDLab submission for the text-independent task of the Short-duration Speaker Verification Challenge 2021 (SdSVC-21).

• This speaker verification competition focuses on short duration test recordings and cross-lingual trials, along with the constraint of limited availability of in-domain DeepMine Farsi training data.
• Currently, both Time Delay Neural Networks (TDNNs) and ResNets achieve state-of-the-art results in speaker verification.
• These architectures are structurally very different and the construction of hybrid networks looks a promising way forward.