Intonational speaker verification: A study on parameters and performance under noisy conditions

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4777-4780

  Siddiq, Sadjad ^a   Kinnunen, Tomi ^a   Vainio, Martti ^b   Werner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

fundamental frequency; prosodic features; speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HERMITE; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; LINEAR PREDICTION; NOISE CONTAMINATION; NOISE DEGRADATIONS; OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS; OPTIMIZED PARAMETER; PROSODIC FEATURES; PROSODY FEATURES; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; TRANSFORMATION COEFFICIENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WHITE NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867600823     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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