Automatic classification of speaker characteristics

@article{Nguyen2010AutomaticCO,
  title={Automatic classification of speaker characteristics},
  author={Phuoc Nguyen and Dat T. Tran and Xu Huang and Dharmendra Sharma},
  journal={International Conference on Communications and Electronics 2010},
  year={2010},
  pages={147-152}
}
An automatic voice-based classification system of speaker characteristics including age, gender and accent is presented in this paper. Speakers are grouped according to their characteristics and their speech features are then extracted to train speaker group models using different classification techniques. Finally fusion of classification results for those speaker groups is performed to obtain results for each speaker characteristic. The ANDOSL Australian speech database consisting of 108… 
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