A study of the cosine distance-based mean shift for telephone speech diarization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-227

  Senoussaoui, Mohammed ^a,b   Kenny, Patrick ^a   Stafylakis, Themos ^a   Dumouchel, Pierre ^b  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Cosine distance; Mean shift; Speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; TELEPHONE;

CLUSTERING; COSINE DISTANCE; MEAN SHIFT; MEAN SHIFT ALGORITHM; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PRIOR INFORMATION; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; SPEAKER DIARIZATION;

TELEPHONE SETS;

EID: 84897931702     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2013.2285474     Document Type: Article

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