Boosting the performance of I-vector based speaker verification via utterance partitioning

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1012-1022

  Rao, Wei ^a   Mak, Man Wai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

I vectors; linear discriminant analysis; speaker verification; support vector machines; utterance partitioning with acoustic vector resampling (UP AVR)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL COMPENSATION; COSINE DISTANCE SCORING; DECISION BOUNDARY; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; I-VECTORS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; REPEATED APPLICATION; REPRESENTATION POWER; RESAMPLING; SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION EVALUATIONS; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; TARGET SPEAKER; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES; WITHIN-CLASS COVARIANCE;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

VECTORS;

EID: 84873907352     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2243436     Document Type: Article

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