Age recognition based on speech signals using weights supervector

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2814-2817

  Porat, Royi ^a   Lange, Dan ^a   Zigel, Yaniv ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age recognition; Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Support vector machine (SVM); Weights supervector

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGE GROUPS; AGE RECOGNITION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; SPEECH SIGNALS; STATE OF THE ART; SUPERVECTOR; UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; GAUSSIANS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; WEIGHT SUPERVECTOR;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 79959846299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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