A distance measure between GMMs based on the unscented transform and its application to speaker recognition

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1985-1988

  Goldberger, Jacob ^a   Aronowitz, Hagai ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; KALMAN FILTERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS (GMM); KL-DIVERGENCE; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745207347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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