Robust Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Gaussian Mixture Speaker Models

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 72-83

  Reynolds, Douglas A ^a   Rose, Richard C ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; TEXT INDEPENDENT SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029209272     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.365379     Document Type: Article

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