Multitaper MFCC and PLP features for speaker verification using i-vectors

Speech Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-251

  Alam, Md Jahangir ^a,b   Kinnunen, Tomi ^c   Kenny, Patrick ^b   Ouellet, Pierre ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; i Vectors; MFCC; Multi taper spectrum; PLP; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

I-VECTORS; MFCC; MULTI-TAPER SPECTRUM; PLP; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

ESTIMATION; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84870238795     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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