Fusion of heterogeneous speaker recognition systems in the STBU submission for the NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2006

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2072-2084

  Brümmer, Niko ^a,b   Burget, Lukáš ^c   Černocký, Jan Honza ^c   Glembek, Ondřej ^c   Grézl, František ^c   Karafiát, Martin ^c   Van Leeuwen, David A ^d   Matějka, Pavel ^c   Schwarz, Petr ^c   Strasheim, Albert ^b  

^a Spescom DataVoice   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eigenchannel; Fusion; Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Nuisance attribute projection (NAP); Speaker recognition; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

EIGENCHANNEL; FUSION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); NUISANCE ATTRIBUTE PROJECTION (NAP); SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MIXTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TRELLIS CODES; VECTORS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 51449086024     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.902870     Document Type: Article

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