Feature extraction is the key procedure when aiming at robust speaker identification. The most commonly used feature extraction techniques work successfully only in clean or matched environments. Accurate speaker identification is made difficult due to a number of factors, with handset/channel mismatch and environmental noise being the most prominent. This paper presents a novel technique which...

Voice biometric feature extraction is the core task in developing any speaker identification system. This paper proposes a robust feature extraction technique for the purpose of speaker identification. The technique is based on processing monaural speech signal using human auditory system based Gammatone Filterbank (GTF) and Independent Component Analysis (ICA). The measures used to assess the ...

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BACKGROUND A growing number of studies suggest a link between timing of menarche and risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence, but few have prospectively examined the emergence of depressive symptoms from late childhood into adolescence. AIMS To examine whether girls who experience earlier menarche than their peers have higher levels of depressive symptoms in adolescence. METHOD The study...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the timing of bank failure/merger in 10 Asian countries over the period of 1999-2007 using a multivariate logit model and a split population duration analysis. Apart from bank-specific information, we also focus on the effects of macroeconomic and financial characteristics. The following empirical findings are obtained. First, the resu...