Optimizing feature complementarity by evolution strategy: Application to automatic speaker verification

Speech Communication

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 724-731

  Charbuillet, C ^a   Gas, B ^a   Chetouani, M ^a   Zarader, J L ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution strategy; Feature extraction; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER VERIFICATION; CEPSTRAL FEATURES; CEPSTRUM; COMPLEMENTARY FEATURES; EQUAL ERROR RATE; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; EVOLUTION STRATEGY; FEATURE EXTRACTOR; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STATE OF THE ART;

FILTER BANKS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 67649119677     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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