Biomimetic multi-resolution analysis for robust speaker recognition

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nemala, Sridhar Krishna ^a   Zotkin, Dmitry N ^b   Duraiswami, Ramani ^b   Elhilali, Mounya ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEMS; BACKGROUND DISTORTIONS; BIOMIMETIC APPROACHES; INFORMATION REPRESENTATION; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; ROBUST SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

BIOMIMETICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MACHINERY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84881313414     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-4722-2012-22     Document Type: Article

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