Speaker indexing and speech enhancement in real meetings/conversations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-96

  Araki, Shoko ^a   Fujimoto, Masakiyo ^a   Ishizuka, Kentaro ^a   Sawada, Hiroshi ^a   Makino, Shoji ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diarization; Maximum SNR beamformer; Speaker indexing; Voice activity detector

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

DIARIZATION; MAXIMUM SNR BEAMFORMER; SPEAKER INDEXING; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 51449113843     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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