Database selection for forensic voice comparison

Odyssey 2012 - Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 62-77

  Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart ^a   Ochoa, Felipe ^a   Thiruvaran, Tharmarajah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENTISTS; FORENSIC VOICE COMPARISONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RANDOM DATABASE; SELECTION PROCEDURES;

DIGITAL FORENSICS;

EID: 85073212288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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