Modulation spectral features for robust far-field speaker identification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-100

  Falk, Tiago H ^a   Chan, Wai Yip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Modulation spectrum; Reverberation; Reverberation time; Speaker identification

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CHANNEL SELECTION; BASELINE SYSTEMS; CHANNEL MODULATION; CLEAN SPEECH; FAR-FIELD; FILTER OUTPUT; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL (GMM); MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MODULATION SPECTRUM; MULTI-CHANNEL; REVERBERATION TIME; SIMULATION RESULT; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPECTRAL FEATURE; SPECTRAL SIGNAL; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TRAINING AND TESTING;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER VISION; FREQUENCY BANDS; LOUDSPEAKERS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; MIXTURES; MODULATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 70449360175     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2023679     Document Type: Article

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