Joint estimation of feature transformation parameters and Gaussian mixture model for speaker identification

Speech Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-241

  Yuo, Kuo Hwei ^a   Wang, Hsiao Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

GENERALIZED COVARIANCE MATRICES; KARHUNEN-LOEVE TRANSFORM; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; TRANSFORMATION EMBEDDED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033154048     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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