Forensic speaker verification using formant features and Gaussian mixture models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1505-1508

  Becker, Timo ^a   Jessen, Michael ^b   Grigoras, Catalin ^c  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b KT 54 Bundeskriminalamt ^*  (Germany)

^c Ministry of Justice   (Romania)

Author keywords

Formants; Gaussian mixture models; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR RATE; FORMANTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; SPEAKER MODEL; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS; VOCAL-TRACTS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867201019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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