The role of speaker factors in the NIST extended data task

Odyssey 2008: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kenny, Patrick ^a   Dehak, Najim ^a,b   Dehak, Réda ^c   Gupta, Vishwa ^a   Dumouchel, Pierre ^a,b  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^c EPITA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY LRDE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISJOINTNESS; EQUAL ERROR RATE; FACTOR ANALYSIS MODEL; SCORE NORMALIZATION; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SPEAKER RECOGNITION EVALUATIONS; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; TRAINING SETS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 85084014507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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