Using discrete probabilities with bhattacharyya measure for SVM-Based speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 861-870

  Lee, Kong Aik ^a   You, Chang Huai ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a   Kinnunen, Tomi ^b   Sim, Khe Chai ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bhattacharyya coefficient; speaker verification; supervector; support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

BHATTACHARYYA COEFFICIENT; CHANNEL COMPENSATION; DATA-DRIVEN; DISCRETE EVENTS; FEATURE NORMALIZATION; FEATURE SPACE; FISHER KERNELS; KERNEL CLASSIFIERS; KERNEL FUNCTION; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SQUARE-ROOT OPERATIONS; SUPERVECTOR; TERM FREQUENCY;

GEARS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 79953277529     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2064308     Document Type: Article

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