Prosodic and other long-term features for speaker diarization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 985-993

  Friedland, Gerald ^a   Vinyals, Oriol ^a   Huang, Yan ^a,b   Müller, Christian ^a,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Li Creative Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term features; Prosody; Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

AUDIO TRACK; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINABILITY; ERROR RATE; LONG-TERM FEATURES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROSODY; SPEAKER DIARIZATION;

EID: 67651165389     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2015089     Document Type: Article

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