Robustness of prosodic features to voice imitation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 613-616

  Farrús, Mireia ^a,b   Wagner, Michael ^a   Anguita, Jan ^a,b   Hernando, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Prosody; Speaker identification; Voice imitation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION; HUMAN RECOGNITION; IDENTIFICATION ERROR RATE; POTENTIAL THREATS; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODY; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; TARGET SPEAKER; VOICE IMITATION;

LOUDSPEAKERS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84867210013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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