Combining derivative and parametric kernels for speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 748-757

  Longworth, C ^a   Gales, M J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classifier combination; Dynamic kernels; Speaker recognition; Support vector machines (SVMs)

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; COMBINATION STRATEGIES; DYNAMIC NATURES; GENERAL CLASS; LEARNING KERNELS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATIONS; SPEECH UTTERANCES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVMS);

CLASSIFIERS; GEARS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MODEL STRUCTURES; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 65249096207     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2012193     Document Type: Article

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