Friends and enemies: A novel initialization for speaker diarization

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 689-692

  Anguera, Xavier ^a,b   Wooters, Chuck ^a   Hernando, Javier ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clusters initialization; Meetings indexing; Speaker diarization; Speaker segmentation and clustering

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; CLUSTER PURITIES; CLUSTER-MERGING; CLUSTERS INITIALIZATION; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 44949133350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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