Forensic speaker recognition in Chinese: A multivariate likelihood ratio discrimination on /i/ and /y/

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1937-1940

  Zhang, Cuiling ^a,b   Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^b   Rose, Philip ^b  

^a CHINA CRIMINAL POLICE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chinese; Forensic speaker recognition; Likelihood ratio

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CROSS-VALIDATED LIKELIHOOD; FORENSIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION; FORMANT FREQUENCY; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MALE SPEAKERS; SPEECH DATA; STANDARD CHINESE; STRENGTH OF EVIDENCE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867197702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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