Robust speaker recognition using denoised vocal source and vocal tract features

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 196-205

  Wang, Ning ^a   Ching, P C ^a   Zheng, Nengheng ^b   Lee, Tan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Robust parameter estimation; source tract features; speaker recognition; spectral subtraction

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; EQUAL ERROR RATE; FEATURE ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; IDENTIFICATION ERROR RATE; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NEW APPROACHES; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NOISY SPEECH; ROBUST PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUST RECOGNITION; ROBUST SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SIMULATION RESULT; SOURCE-TRACT FEATURES; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; WHITE NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957744636     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2045800     Document Type: Article

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