A genetic classification method for speaker recognition

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-19

  Hong, Q Y ^a   Kwong, S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; Genetic algorithm; Speaker identification

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENETIC CLASSIFICATION METHOD; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 10844256470     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.08.035     Document Type: Article

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