A study on universal background model training in speaker verification

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1890-1899

  Hasan, Taufiq ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; intelligent speaker selection; speaker recognition; speaker verification; universal background model (UBM)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; INTELLIGENT SPEAKER SELECTION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND MODEL;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79960528685     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2102753     Document Type: Article

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