Frequency-domain maximum likelihood estimation for automatic speech recognition in additive and convolutive noises

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-266

  Zhao, Yunxin ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortion; Gaussian noise; Map estimation; Maximum likelihood; Spectral analysis; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001459635     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.841208     Document Type: Article

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