Is voice transformation a threat to speaker identification?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4845-4848

  Jin, Qin ^a   Toth, Arthur R ^a   Black, Alan W ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Phonetic speaker identification; Speaker identification; Voice transformation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER NETWORKS; LINGUISTICS; LOUDSPEAKERS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

PHONETIC SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; VOICE TRANSFORMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449115100     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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