How many do we need? Exploration of the population size effect on the performance of forensic speaker classification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1941-1944

  Ishihara, Shunichi ^a   Kinoshita, Yuko ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forensic; Japanese; Likelihood ratio; Long term F0 distribution; MVLR; Population; Speaker classification; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC; JAPANESE; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LONG TERM; MVLR; POPULATION; SPEAKER CLASSIFICATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84867193857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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