A test of the effectiveness of speaker verification for differentiating between identical twins

Science and Justice

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 182-186

  Ariyaeeinia, Aladdin ^a   Morrison, Christopher ^b   Malegaonkar, Amit ^a   Black, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometrics; Identical twins; Score normalisation; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 56849102513     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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