On the use of different speech representations for speaker modeling

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-314

  Chen, Ke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Different speech representations; Expectation maximazation (EM) algorithm; Generalized Gaussian mixture model (GGMM); KING speech corpus; Soft competition; Speaker modeling; Speaker recognition; Speaker specific information

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIFFERENT SPEECH REPRESENTATIONS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GGMM); SOFT COMPETITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 23944498183     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.848166     Document Type: Article

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