Efficient speaker recognition using approximated cross entropy (ACE)

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2033-2043

  Aronowitz, Hagai ^a,b   Burshtein, David ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Speaker identification; Speaker indexing; Speaker recognition; Speaker retrieval; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER INDEXING; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RETRIEVAL; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LOUDSPEAKERS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; TRELLIS CODES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 64249095146     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.902059     Document Type: Article

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