Estimation of handset nonlinearity with application to speaker recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 567-583

  Quatieri, Thomas F ^a   Reynolds, Douglas A ^a   O'Leary, Gerald C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel mismatch; Gaussian mixture model; Handset mapping; Handset nonlinearity estimation; Magnitude only representation; Phantom formants; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MICROPHONES; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; POLYNOMIALS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CHANNEL MISMATCH; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; HANDSET MAPPING; HANDSET NONLINEARITY ESTIMATION; MAGNITUDE ONLY REPRESENTATION; PHANTOM FORMANTS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034274733     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.861376     Document Type: Article

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