Overview of front-end features for robust speaker recognition

APSIPA ASC 2011 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1215-1226

  Jin, Qin ^a   Zheng, Thomas Fang ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION; HIGH-LEVEL FEATURES; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; ROBUST SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

DATA PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84866876280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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