Modeling prosody for speaker recognition: Why estimating pitch may be a red herring

Odyssey 2010: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 12-19

  Laskowski, Kornel ^a   Jin, Qin ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC CORRELATES; DISCRETE TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC ENERGY; HARMONIC STRUCTURES; PITCH ESTIMATION; PROSODIC FEATURES; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85073112188     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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