Combining Gaussianized/non-Gaussianized features to improve speaker diarization of telephone conversations

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1040-1043

  Gupta, Vishwa ^a   Kenny, Patrick ^a   Ouellet, Pierre ^a   Boulianne, Gilles ^a   Dumouchel, Pierre ^a  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayes methods; Bayesian information criterion (BIC) clustering; Clustering; Gaussian processes; Speaker diarization; Speaker identification (SID) clustering; Speaker segmentation; Speaker segmentation and clustering

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELEPHONE; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

DIARIZATION ERROR RATE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; GENDER LABELING; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION CLUSTERING; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 36749008026     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2007.905088     Document Type: Article

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