A posterior union model with applications to robust speech and speaker recognition

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ming, Ji ^a   Lin, Jie ^b   Smith, F Jack ^a,c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE CORRUPTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); SPEAKER RECOGNITION; TIME VARYING NOISE CHARACTERISTICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646410695     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP/2006/75390     Document Type: Article

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