Pitch-based gender identification with two-stage classification

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-225

  Hu, Yakun ^a   Wu, Dapeng ^a   Nucci, Antonio ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b Narus Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy separation; Gaussian mixture model; Gender identification; Pitch; Suspicious speaker detection

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDINGS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

ENERGY SEPARATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GENDER IDENTIFICATION; PITCH; SUSPICIOUS SPEAKER DETECTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863012162     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.308     Document Type: Article

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