Isolated-Word Speech Recognition Using Multisection Vector Quantization Codebooks

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 837-849

  Burton, David K ^a   Shore, John E ^a   Buck, Joseph T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SIGNAL QUANTIZATION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

SPEECH;

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VECTOR ANALYSIS; WORD;

EID: 0021890797     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASSP.1985.1164650     Document Type: Article

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