In this book, the research is concerned with the identification of people (mainly speaker verification) based on a connectionist approach. In particular, the book focuses on the improvement of system performance obtained by certain developments of preprocessed speech signal inputs. Various performance measures are used to evaluate the automatic speaker verification (SV) system for different aspects of performance. The book provides an introduction to the field of automatic speaker recognition. The basic structures as well as classification of the speaker recognition systems are described. The...