Aural and automatic forensic speaker recognition in mismatched conditions

International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 214-234

  Alexander, Anil ^a   Dessimoz, Damien ^b   Botti, Filippo ^b   Drygajlo, Andrzej ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aural speaker recognition; Automatic speaker recognition; Mismatched recording conditions; Strength of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344480468     PISSN: 17488885     EISSN: 17488893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/sll.2005.12.2.214     Document Type: Article

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