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Generic Modeling Applied To Speaker Count, Ananth N. Iyer, Uchechukwu O. Ofoegbu, Robert E. Yantorno, Brett Y. Smolenski

Ananth N Iyer

The problem of determing the number of speakers participating in a conversation and building their models in short conversations, within an unknown group of speakers, is addressed in this paper. The lack of information about the number of speakers and the unavailability of sufficient data present a challenging task of efficiently estimating the speaker model parameters. The proposed method uses a novel generic speaker identification (GSID) system as a guide in the model building process. The GSID system is designed performing speaker identification where the speaker associated with the test data may not be enrolled. The models in the GSID …