Alleviating the small sample-size problem in i-vector based speaker verification

2012 8th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, ISCSLP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 335-339

  Rao, Wei ^a   Mak, Man Wai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

i vectors; LDA; multi way LDA; Speaker verification; utterance partitioning

Indexed keywords

I-VECTORS; LDA; MULTI-WAY LDA; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; UTTERANCE PARTITIONING;

FACE RECOGNITION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LOADING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; VECTORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873894051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCSLP.2012.6423527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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