Acoustic beamforming for speaker diarization of meetings

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2011-2022

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

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic beamforming; Meeting processing; Speaker diarization; Speaker segmentation and clustering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INFORMATIONS; BEAM-FORMING TECHNIQUES; CHANNEL SELECTIONS; DYNAMIC OUTPUTS; MEETING PROCESSING; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEAKER SEGMENTATION AND CLUSTERING; STEP TIME; TEST SETS; VITERBI;

ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; MICROPHONES; VITERBI ALGORITHM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 50449086237     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.902460     Document Type: Article

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