A comparison of various adaptation methods for speaker verification with limited enrollment data

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mak, Man Wai ^a   Hsiao, Roger ^b   Mak, Brian ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ADAPTATION METHODS; ERROR RATES; REFERENCE SPEAKER WEIGHTING (RSW); SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947670488     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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