Speaker diarization for multiple-distant-microphone meetings using several sources of information

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1212-1224

  Pardo, José M ^a   Anguera, Xavier ^b   Wooters, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Meetings recognition; Rich transcription; Speaker diarization; Speaker segmentation; Speech source separation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MEETINGS RECOGNITION; RICH TRANSCRIPTION; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION; SPEECH SOURCE SEPARATION;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 34548310397     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2007.1077     Document Type: Article

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