An SVM Kernel With GMM-Supervector Based on the Bhattacharyya Distance for Speaker Recognition

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-52

  You, Chang Huai ^a   Lee, Kong Aik ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) evaluation; speaker recognition; supervector; support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008056687     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: 15582361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2006711     Document Type: Article

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