Minimax i-vector extractor for short duration speaker verification

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3708-3712

  Hautamäki, Ville ^a,b   Cheng, You Chi ^b   Rajan, Padmanabhan ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

I vector; Minimax parameter estimate; PLDA; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

I VECTORS; MINIMAX TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PLDA; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS; TOTAL VARIABILITIES;

VECTORS;

EID: 84905279850     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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