Combining short-term cepstral and long-term pitch features for automatic recognition of speaker age

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2268-2271

  Müller, Christian ^a   Burkhardt, Felix ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age recognition; GMM; Speaker classification; SVM

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSES; AGE RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITIONS; CEPSTRAL; CEPSTRAL FEATURES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FEATURE TYPES; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; GMM; PHONE RECOGNIZERS; PROMISING APPROACHES; SPEAKER CLASSIFICATION; SPEAKER RECOGNITIONS; SVM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149095112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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