Hierarchical speaker clustering methods for the NIST i-vector challenge

Odyssey 2014: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 254-259

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

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

CASCADE CLUSTERING; COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PRIVACY AND SECURITY; PROBABILISTIC LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SPEAKER CLUSTERING; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84921375866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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