Spear: An open source toolbox for speaker recognition based on Bob

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1655-1659

  Khoury, Elie ^a   El Shafey, Laurent ^a   Marcel, Sebastien ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; I Vectors; inter session variability; joint factor analysis; MOBIO; NIST SRE; open source; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; I-VECTORS; INTER-SESSION VARIABILITY; JOINT FACTOR ANALYSIS; MOBIO; NIST SRE; OPEN SOURCES; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84905215309     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6853879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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