Unsupervised speaker segmentation and tracking in real-time audio content analysis

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 332-343

  Lu, Lie ^a   Zhang, Hong Jiang ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Audio content analysis; Audio indexing; Speaker change detection; Speaker segmentation; Speaker tracking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

AUDIO CONTENT ANALYSIS; AUDIO INDEXING; SPEAKER CHANGE DETECTION; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION; SPEAKER TRACING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 17444365032     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0160-5     Document Type: Article

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