Text-independent speaker recognition using non-linear frame likelihood transformation

Speech Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-209

  Markov, Konstantin P ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frame level normalization; Likelihood normalization; Speaker identification; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; NONLINEAR FRAME LIKELIHOOD TRANSFORMATION; TEXT INDEPENDENT SPEAKER RECOGNITION; WEIGHTING MODELS RANK (WMR) TRANSFORMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032091375     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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