Speaker verification using speaker- and test-dependent fast score normalization

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 90-98

  Ramos Castro, Daniel ^a   Fierrez Aguilar, Julian ^a   Gonzalez Rodriguez, Joaquin ^a   Ortega Garcia, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cohort selection; Kullback Leibler divergence; Score normalization; Speaker verification; Speaker dependent; Test dependent; Tnorm

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COHORT SELECTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS (GMM); KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER-DEPENDENCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750479883     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.06.008     Document Type: Article

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