Robust front-end processing for speaker identification over extremely degraded communication channels

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7214-7218

  Sadjadi, Seyed Omid ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mean Hilbert Envelope Coefficients (MHEC); speaker identification (SID); spectral flux; speech activity detection (SAD); voicing measures

Indexed keywords

HILBERT ENVELOPE; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPECTRAL FLUX; SPEECH ACTIVITY DETECTIONS; VOICING MEASURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

EID: 84890490765     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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