senones

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noun

A Gaulish tribe in the Roman period.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

senones1

noun
  1. pluralplural of senone
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    The techniques include: 1) a nearest-neighbor discriminant analysis (NDA) approach that is formulated to alleviate some of the limitations associated with the conventional linear discriminant analysis (LDA) that assumes Gaussian class-conditional distributions, 2) the application of speaker- and channel-adapted features, which are derived from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, for speaker recognition, and 3) the use of a deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model with a large number of output units (~10k senones) to compute the frame-level soft alignments required in the i-vector estimation process.

    2016, Seyed Omid Sadjadi, Sriram Ganapathy, Jason W. Pelecanos, “The IBM 2016 Speaker Recognition System”, in arXiv

Senones2

nounSenones pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyA Gaulish tribe in the Roman period.

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΣήνωνες
  2. EnglishSenones

Via Latin from Ancient Greek Σήνωνες (Sḗnōnes), originally the capital of the Gaulish people of the same name.

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