An Information Theoretic Combination of MFCC and TDOA Features for Speaker Diarization

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-438

  Vijayasenan, Deepu ^a   Valente, Fabio ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Feature combination; information bottleneck; meeting data; speaker diarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008566469     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: 15587924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2048603     Document Type: Article

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