Title :
Clustering speakers by their voices
Author :
Solomonoff, A. ; Mielke, A. ; Schmidt, M. ; Gish, H.
Author_Institution :
GTE/BBN Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The problem of clustering speakers by their voices is addressed. With the mushrooming of available speech data from television broadcasts to voice mail, automatic systems for archive retrieval, organizing and labeling by speaker are necessary. Clustering conversations by speaker is a solution to all three of the above tasks. Another application for speaker clustering is to group utterances together for speaker adaptation in speech recognition. Metrics based on purity and completeness of clusters are introduced. Next our approach to speaker clustering is described and finally experimental results on a subset of the Switchboard corpus are presented
Keywords :
speaker recognition; Switchboard corpus; cluster completeness; cluster purity; conversations clustering; labeling problem; metrics; speaker adaptation; speaker clustering; speech recognition; utterances; voices; Application software; Audio recording; Information retrieval; Labeling; Organizing; Radio broadcasting; Speech processing; Speech recognition; TV broadcasting; Voice mail;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4428-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1998.675375