Simultaneous Speech Detection with Spatial Features for Speaker Diarization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 436-446

  Zelenak, Martin ^a   Segura, Carlos ^a   Luque, Jordi ^a   Hernando, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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EID: 85008556062     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2160167     Document Type: Article

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