Impact of noise reduction and spectrum estimation on noise robust speaker identification

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3656-3660

  Godin, Keith W ^a   Sadjadi, Seyed Omid ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mismatched condition; Noise robustness; Robust features; Speaker identification; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MISMATCHED CONDITIONS; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; PREDICTION-BASED TECHNIQUES; ROBUST FEATURES; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHM; TIME DOMAIN WINDOWING;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905279854     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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