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Environment-Related Robustness Issues

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In practical applications, many environment-related factors may influence the performance of speaker recognition. There is often no prior knowledge of these factors in advance, which makes the environment-related robustness issue more difficulty. In this chapter, three environment-related factors, background noise, cross channel and multiple-speaker, are summarized and their corresponding robustness issues are discussed.

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Zheng, T.F., Li, L. (2017). Environment-Related Robustness Issues. In: Robustness-Related Issues in Speaker Recognition. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3238-7_2

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