• DocumentCode
    1645031
  • Title

    Quadratic Function Based Frequency Warping Method

  • Author

    Honghai, Wang ; Gang, Liu ; Jun, Guo

  • Author_Institution
    Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    530
  • Lastpage
    533
  • Abstract
    A new quadratic warping function is proposed with the intention to compensate for the disadvantages with traditional frequency warping functions. The quadratic curve is determined by frequency starting/ending point as well as the inflexion point which can be determined through grid search or variable step search. Application of this new frequency warping method in ALID reveals that the new quadratic warping function outperforms linear function and piecewise linear function in decreasing recognition error rate.
  • Keywords
    speaker recognition; frequency warping method; grid search; inflexion point; piecewise linear function; quadratic curve; quadratic warping function; variable step search; Chromium; Error analysis; Frequency estimation; Maximum likelihood estimation; Natural languages; Pattern recognition; Piecewise linear techniques; Telecommunication control; Automatic Language Identification (ALID); Frequency Warping Function; Speaker Normalization; Warping Factor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control Conference, 2007. CCC 2007. Chinese
  • Conference_Location
    Hunan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-7-81124-055-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-7-900719-22-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CHICC.2006.4347079
  • Filename
    4347079