Variance-spectra based normalization for i-vector standard and probabilistic linear discriminant analysis

Odyssey 2012 - Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-164

  Bousquet, Pierre Michel ^a   Larcher, Anthony ^b   Matrouf, Driss ^a   Bonastre, Jean François ^a   Plchot, Oldřich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

I vectors; Probabilistic linear discriminant analysis; Speaker recognition

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

I VECTORS; LENGTH NORMALIZATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION; SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85073229756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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