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Speaker recognition is conceded with ex- tracting the identity of the person speaking the ut- terance. In today’s modern world, as speech interac- tion with smart computers becomes more persistent in day to day activities, the utility of automatically recognizing a speaker increases. Speaker recog- nition can be text dependent in which recognizer works on pre-trained data, or it may be text-inde- pendent where there is no constraint on the spoken words by the speaker. The techniques for speaker recognition can be categorized into three major approaches. 38