The majority wins: A method for combining speaker diarization systems

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 924-927

  Huijbregts, Marijn ^a   Van Leeuwen, David ^b,c   De Jong, Franciska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

INPUT SYSTEMS; MAJORITY VOTING; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; VOTING METHOD; VOTING SCHEMES;

MICROPHONES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450194678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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