Step-by-step and integrated approaches in broadcast news speaker diarization

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 303-330

  Meignier, Sylvain ^a,c   Moraru, Daniel ^b   Fredouille, Corinne ^a   Bonastre, Jean François ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

E HMM; Integrated approach; Speaker diarization; Speaker indexing; Speaker segmentation and clustering; Step by step approach

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

E-HMM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEAKER INDEXING; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING; STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 29044442235     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2005.08.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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