Impostor cohort selection for score normalisation in speaker verification

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 881-888

  Finan, R A ^a   Sapeluk, A T ^a   Damper, R L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impostor cohort; Score normalisation; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ERRORS; MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

IMPOSTOR COHORT SELECTION; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031222364     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(97)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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