An overview of statistical pattern recognition techniques for speaker verification

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 62-81

  Fazel, Amin ^a   Chakrabartty, Shantanu ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING EFFECTS; AMBIENT NOISE; CHANNEL VARIATIONS; FUTURE TRENDS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; ROBUST RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; TRAINING SAMPLE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79958843193     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2011.941080     Document Type: Review

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