Modified Segmental Histogram Equalization for robust speaker verification

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 479-486

  Skosan, Marshalleno ^a   Mashao, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Histogram Equalization; Mismatched conditions; NIST 2000; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELEPHONE;

HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; MISMATCHED CONDITIONS; NIST 2000; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 32644431784     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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