Speaker model selection based on the bayesian information criterion applied to unsupervised speaker indexing

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 583-592

  Nishida, Masafumi ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Bayesian information criterion; Discussions; Speaker adaptation; Speaker model selection; Speaker recognition; Unsupervised speaker indexing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DISCUSSIONS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER MODEL SELECTION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; UNSUPERVISEDD SPEAKER INDEXING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 22544478169     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.848890     Document Type: Article

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