Self-learning speaker and channel adaptation based on spectral variation source decomposition

Speech Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-77

  Zhao, Yunxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic normalization; Iterative phone model adaptation; Self learning; Unsupervised sequential phone model adaptation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHANNEL ADAPTATION; ITERATIVE PHONE MODEL ADAPTATION; SELF LEARNING SPEAKER; SPECTRAL BIASES; UNSUPERVISED SEQUENTIAL PHONE MODEL ADAPTATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0029770844     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6393(95)00036-4     Document Type: Article

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