Multistream speaker diarization of meetings recordings beyond MFCC and TDOA features

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-67

  Vijayasenan, Deepu ^a   Valente, Fabio ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Information bottleneck diarization; Meeting recordings; Multi stream modeling; NIST rich transcription; Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION BOTTLENECK; MEETING RECORDINGS; MULTI-STREAM; NIST RICH TRANSCRIPTION; SPEAKER DIARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 80052714549     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.07.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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