An overview of speaker identification: Accuracy and robustness issues

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 23-61

  Togneri, Roberto ^a   Pullella, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAN SPEECH; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; MISSING DATA METHODS; RAPID DEGRADATION; ROBUST SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; ROBUSTNESS ISSUES; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION PERFORMANCE; SPEAKER MODELING; SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION; TOPDOWN;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; LOUDSPEAKERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958818321     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2011.941079     Document Type: Review

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