Speech utterance clustering based on the maximization of within-cluster homogeneity of speaker voice characteristics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1631-1645

  Tsai, Wei Ho ^a   Wang, Hsin Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

BAYESIAN INFORMATIONS; CLUSTER HOMOGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOICE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION; SPEECH; VOICE;

EID: 33748561545     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2225570     Document Type: Article

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