Improving GMM-UBM speaker verification using discriminative feedback adaptation

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 376-388

  Chao, Yi Hsiang ^b   Tsai, Wei Ho ^c   Wang, Hsin Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Discriminative feedback adaptation; Log likelihood ratio; Minimum verification squared error; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; TARGETS;

DISCRIMINABILITY; DISCRIMINATIVE FEEDBACK ADAPTATION; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAININGS; ERROR CRITERIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL-UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODELS; GENERALIZATION ABILITIES; LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MINIMUM VERIFICATION SQUARED-ERROR; MODEL-BASED; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; TARGET SPEAKERS; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 62249212710     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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