Combining regression and classification methods for improving automatic speaker age recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5174-5177

  Van Heerden, Charl ^a   Barnard, Etienne ^a   Davel, Marelie ^a   Van Der Walt, Christiaan ^a   Van Dyk, Ewald ^a   Feld, Michael ^b   Müller, Christian ^b  

^a CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

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

Author keywords

Age classification; Gender classification; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGE CLASSIFICATION; AGE RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; GENDER CLASSIFICATION; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; REGRESSION METHOD; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE REGRESSIONS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; TELEPHONE SPEECH;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 78049355199     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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