Speaker verification using a new representation based on a combination of MFCC and formants

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1461-1464

  Mezghani, Ahmed ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formants; Mahalanobis distance; MFCC; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FORMANTS; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE; MFCC; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33751316308     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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