Two's a crowd: Improving speaker diarization by automatically identifying and excluding overlapped speech

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 32-35

  Boakye, Kofi ^a,b   Vinyals, Oriol ^a   Friedland, Gerald ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Overlap detection; Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

ERROR RATE; OVERLAP DETECTION; POST PROCESSING; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTER; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; SPEECH DETECTION; WARPING TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867228708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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