Strategies to improve the robustness of agglomerative hierarchical clustering under data source variation for speaker diarization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1590-1601

  Han, Kyu J ^a   Kim, Samuel ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering (ahc); Bayesian information criterion (bic); Generalized likelihood ratio (glr); Information change rate (icr); Selective agglomerative hierarchical clustering (sahc); Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING (AHC); BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION (BIC); GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO (GLR); INFORMATION CHANGE RATE (ICR); SELECTIVE AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING (SAHC); SPEAKER DIARIZATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MERGING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350572462     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2002085     Document Type: Article

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