Nonlinear Compensation for Stochastic Matching

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 643-655

  Surendran, Arun C ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Em algorithm; Neural networks; Nonlinear compensation; Robust speech recognition; Stochastic matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001583797     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.799689     Document Type: Article

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