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Unknown-Multiple Speaker clustering using HMM
Type of publication: Idiap-RR
Citation: ajmera-rr-02-07
Number: Idiap-RR-07-2002
Year: 2002
Institution: IDIAP
Address: Martigny, Switzerland
Note: ICSLP, Denver, Colorado, 2002
Abstract: An HMM-based speaker clustering framework is presented, where the number of speakers and segmentation boundaries are unknown \emph{a priori}. Ideally, the system aims to create one pure cluster for each speaker. The HMM is ergodic in nature with a minimum duration topology. The final number of clusters is determined automatically by merging closest clusters and retraining this new cluster, until a decrease in likelihood is observed. In the same framework, we also examine the effect of using only the features from highly voiced frames as a means of improving the robustness and computational complexity of the algorithm. The proposed system is assessed on the 1996 HUB-4 evaluation test set in terms of both cluster and speaker purity. It is shown that the number of clusters found often correspond to the actual number of speakers.
Userfields: ipdinar={2002}, ipdmembership={speech}, language={English},
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Projects Idiap
Authors Ajmera, Jitendra
Bourlard, Hervé
Lapidot, I.
McCowan, Iain A.
Crossref by ajmera2002icslp
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