Employment of voicing information of speech spectra for noise-robust speaker identification

European Signal Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2399-2403

  Jancovic, Peter ^a   Köküer, Münevver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHODS; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY; INFORMATION ESTIMATION; REAL-WORLD NOISE; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH DATA; SPEECH SPECTRA; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; TIMIT DATABASE;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863769359     PISSN: 22195491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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