A comparison of session variability compensation approaches for speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 802-809

  McLaren, Mitchell ^a   Vogt, Robert ^a   Baker, Brendan ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; nuisance attribute projection (NAP); session variation; speaker verification; support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; NUISANCE ATTRIBUTE PROJECTION (NAP); SESSION VARIATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM);

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649401405     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2010.2068290     Document Type: Article

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