Variational Bayesian PLDA for speaker diarization in the MGB challenge

2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 667-674

  Villalba, Jesus ^a   Ortega, Alfonso ^a   Miguel, Antonio ^a   Lleida, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

i vectors; MGB challenge; PLDA; Speaker Diarization; variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

MERGING; VECTORS;

I VECTORS; MGB CHALLENGE; PLDA; SPEAKER DIARIZATION; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84964543835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2015.7404860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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