Beyond the Long-term Mean: Exploring the potential of F0 distribution parameters in traditional forensic speaker recognition

Odyssey 2008: Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kinoshita, Yuko ^a   Ishihara, Shunichi ^b   Rose, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; FORENSIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MODAL DENSITY; SPEAKER VARIABILITY; VOICED SPEECH;

DIGITAL FORENSICS;

EID: 85084017218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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