Diarization of telephone conversations using factor analysis

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1059-1070

  Kenny, Patrick ^a   Reynolds, Douglas ^b   Castaldo, Fabio ^c  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Loquendo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel factors; clustering; diarization; speaker factors; speaker recognition; speaker segmentation; variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FACTORS; CLUSTERING; DIARIZATION; SPEAKER FACTORS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER SEGMENTATIONS; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERRORS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649270455     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2010.2081790     Document Type: Article

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