Towards fully Bayesian speaker recognition: Integrating out the between-speaker covariance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 505-508

  Villalba, Jesús ^a   Brümmer, Niko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b Agnitio ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

I vectors; Speaker recognition; Variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

I-VECTORS; MODEL PARAMETERS; OVERFITTING; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84865749202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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