Using a real-time, tracking microphone array as input to an HMM speech recognizer

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 249-252

  Hughes, T B ^a   Kim, Hong Seok ^a   Dibiase, J H ^a   Silverman, H F ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROPHONE ARRAY; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; HMM-BASED; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; REAL TIME TRACKING; REAL- TIME; ROOM ACOUSTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; TALKING HEADS; VERY NEAR FIELDS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0031639898     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1998.674414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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