Utterance partitioning with acoustic vector resampling for i-vector based speaker verification

Odyssey 2012 - Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 165-171

  Rao, Wei ^a   Mak, Man Wai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

I vectors; Speaker verification; Support vector machines; Utterance partitioning

Indexed keywords

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTOR SPACES; VECTORS;

COSINE DISTANCE SCORING; DISCRIMINATIVE ABILITY; FEATURE REPRESENTATION; I VECTORS; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNIQUES; TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATION; UTTERANCE PARTITIONING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85073246899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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