Combination of agglomerative and sequential clustering for speaker diarization

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4361-4364

  Vijayasenan, Deepu ^a,b   Valente, Fabio ^a,b   Bourlard, Hervé ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agglomer ative and sequential information bottleneck; Meetings data; Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

AGGLOMER-ATIVE AND SEQUENTIAL INFORMATION BOTTLENECK; AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; MEETINGS DATA; SPEAKER DIARIZATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 51449095036     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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