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Robustness-Related Issues in Speaker Recognition

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Speaker dependent factors, such as gender, physical condition (cold or laryngitis), speaking style (emotion state, speech rate, etc.), cross-language, accent and session variations, are major concerns in speech signal processing. How they correlate with each other and what the key factors are in speech realization are real considerations in research [1]. The current mainstream research can be divided into five directions which will be described in the following subsections.

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Zheng, T.F., Li, L. (2017). Speaker-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_3

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