Speaker model clustering for efficient speaker identification in large population applications

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 848-853

  Apsingekar, Vijendra Raj ^a   De Leon, Phillip L ^a  

^a Horeshoe Cir Jett Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering methods; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; FEATURE VECTORS; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACIES; LARGE POPULATIONS; LIKELIHOOD COMPUTATIONS; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATIONS; SPEAKER MODELS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEED-UP;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

EID: 65249170183     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2010882     Document Type: Article

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