Speaker recognition: a tutorial
Proceedings of the IEEEPublished 1 January 1997Open access
J.P. Campbell
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A tutorial on the design and development of automatic speaker-recognition systems is presented and a new automatic speakers recognition system is given that performs with 98.9% correct decalcification.
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