Evaluation of speech quality measures for the purpose of speaker verification

Odyssey 2008: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Richiardi, Jonas ^a   Drygajlo, Andrzej ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; QUALITY CONTROL;

IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; QUALITY MEASURES; REAL WORLD DEPLOYMENT; SIGNAL QUALITY; SPEAKER VERIFICATION; SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEM; SPEECH QUALITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85084013383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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