A Joint factor analysis approach to progressive model adaptation in text-independent speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1999-2010

  Yin, Shou Chun ^a,b   Rose, Richard ^a,b   Kenny, Patrick ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Speaker adaptation; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION METHODS; DECISION THRESHOLDS; EQUAL ERROR RATES; EVALUATION PLANS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); IMPROVED MODELS; JOINT FACTOR ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MODEL ADAPTATIONS; PROGRESSIVE MODELS; SCORE NORMALIZATIONS; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER MODELS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VARIABILITIES; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; TARGET SPEAKERS; TELEPHONE SPEECH; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATIONS; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATIONS; UNSUPERVISED SPEAKER ADAPTATIONS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FACE RECOGNITION; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MIXTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRELLIS CODES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449099241     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.902410     Document Type: Article

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