Speaker identification in each of the neutral and shouted talking environments based on gender-dependent approach using SPHMMS

International Journal of Computers and Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-91

  Shahin, Ismail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Gender recognition; Hidden Markov models; Mel frequency cepstral coefficients; Speaker recognition; Suprasegmental hidden Markov models

Indexed keywords

GENDER RECOGNITION; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEECH DATABASE; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SUPRASEGMENTAL HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LOUDSPEAKERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79957832640     PISSN: 1206212X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2316/Journal.202.2011.1.202-3019     Document Type: Article

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