A comparison of linear and non-linear calibrations for speaker recognition

Odyssey 2014: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 14-18

  Brummer, Niko ^a   Swart, Albert ^a   Van Leeuwen, David ^b  

^a Agnitio Research   (South Africa)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LINEAR TRANSFORM; LOG LIKELIHOOD RATIO; NON-LINEAR METHODS; NONLINEAR CALIBRATION; NORMAL INVERSE GAUSSIAN; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATING POINTS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 85073153566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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