Source-Normalized LDA for Robust Speaker Recognition Using i-Vectors from Multiple Speech Sources

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 755-766

  McLaren, Mitchell ^a   Van Leeuwen, David ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross channel source variation; i vector; linear discriminant analysis (LDA); speaker recognition; total variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008544242     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2164533     Document Type: Article

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