Kernel eigenvoice speaker adaptation

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 984-992

  Mak, Brian ^a,b   Kwok, James T ^b,c   Ho, Simon ^b  

^a IEEE   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Composite kernels; Eigenvoice speaker adaptation; Generalized EM algorithm; Kernel eigenvoice speaker adaptation; Kernel principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE KERNELS; EIGENVOICE SPEAKER ADAPTATION; GENERALIZED EM ALGORITHMS; KERNEL EIGENVOICE SPEAKER ADAPTATION; KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA REDUCTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27644511614     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851971     Document Type: Article

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