A cohort-based speaker model synthesis for mismatched channels in speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1893-1903

  Wu, Wei ^a   Zheng, T F ^a   Xu, Ming Xing ^a   Soong, F K ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Channel mismatch; Cohort; Speaker model synthesis; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; CHANNEL MISMATCH; COHORT; COHORT SETS; DEGRADING FACTORS; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; LANDLINE; MOBILE CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PUBLIC TELEPHONES; SPEAKER MODEL SYNTHESIS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEECH DATUM; TEST DATUM; UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODELS;

LAW ENFORCEMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 64549092742     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.899297     Document Type: Article

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