Improving short utterance i-vector speaker verification using utterance variance modelling and compensation techniques

Speech Communication

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-82

  Kanagasundaram, A ^a   Dean, D ^a   Sridharan, S ^a   Gonzalez Dominguez, J ^b   Gonzalez Rodriguez, J ^b   Ramos, D ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

I vector; PLDA; SN LDA; Speaker verification; SUV; SUVN

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894376370     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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