Quality assessment for speaker diarization and its application in speaker characterization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 816-827

  Vaquero, Carlos ^a   Ortega, Alfonso ^b   Miguel, Antonio ^b   Lleida, Eduardo ^b  

^a Agnitio SL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

confidence measures; speaker characterization; Speaker diarization; telephone conversations

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; DATA SETS; LARGE DATASETS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; TELEPHONE CONVERSATION;

TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 84872910502     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2236317     Document Type: Article

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