Evaluation of the vulnerability of speaker verification to synthetic speech

Odyssey 2010: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-158

  De Leon, Phillip L ^a   Pucher, Michael ^b   Yamagishi, Junichi ^c  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

^b TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; BACKGROUND MODEL; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; INTER-FRAME DIFFERENCES; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIZER; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84906233506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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