Text-independent speaker verification

Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 167-211

  Hannani, Asmaa El ^a   Petrovska Delacrétaz, Dijana ^b   Fauve, Benoît ^c   Mayoue, Aurélien ^b   Mason, John ^c   Bonastre, Jean François ^d   Chollet, Gérard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TELECOM SUDPARIS   (France)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon (LIA)   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-292-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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