Proposal of a new confidence parameter estimating the number of speakers-An experimental investigation

Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-109

  Sayoud, Halim ^a   Ouamour, Siham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Estimation of the number of speakers; Speaker recognition; Speech overlap; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION; EXISTING SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATING; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH-OVERLAPS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 79956221166     PISSN: 20734212     EISSN: 20734239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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