Analysis of i-vector length normalization in speaker recognition systems

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-252

  Garcia Romero, D ^a   Espy Wilson, Carol Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

I vectors; Length normalization; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATED SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN ASSUMPTION; GENERATIVE MODEL; HEAVY-TAILED; I-VECTORS; LENGTH NORMALIZATION; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEM;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84865733857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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