Multistage speaker diarization of broadcast news

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1505-1512

  Barras, Claude ^b   Zhu, Xuan ^b   Meignier, Sylvain ^b,c   Gauvain, Jean Luc ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian information criterion (BIC) clustering; Speaker diarization; Speaker identification (SID); Speaker segmentation and clustering

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION (BIC) CLUSTERING; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION (SID); SPEAKER SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING;

BROADCASTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 34047266609     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.878261     Document Type: Article

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