Generalized locally recurrent probabilistic neural networks with application to text-independent speaker verification

Neurocomputing

Volumn 70, Issue 7-9, 2007, Pages 1424-1438

  Ganchev, Todor D ^a   Tasoulis, Dimitris K ^a   Vrahatis, Michael N ^a   Fakotakis, Nikos D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hybrid architectures; Recurrent neural networks; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

HYBRID ARCHITECTURE; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORK; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33847342952     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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