Improving reference speaker weighting adaptation by the use of maximum-likelihood reference speakers

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mak, Brian ^a   Lai, Tsz Chung ^a   Hsiao, Roger ^b  

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

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ADAPTATION SPEECH; EIGENVOICE (EV) ADAPTATION; REFERENCE SPEAKER VECTORS; REFERENCE SPEAKER WEIGHTING (RSW);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947681802     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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