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There are many ways in which a pattern recognition system may be implemented. In the specific problem of speaker verification, a two-class recognition scheme is of interest. A speaker who desired verification of his identity based upon some previously stored characteristics of his speech represents one of the two classes (real), whereas the other class (impostor) encompasses all other speakers.
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Das et al. (1969) studied this question.