Speech analysis and recognition using interval statistics generated from a composite auditory model

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 90-94

  Sheikhzadeh, H ^a   Deng, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPOSITE AUDITORY MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); INSTANTANEOUS FIRING RATES (IFR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031647650     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.650316     Document Type: Article

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