A novel projection-based likelihood measure for noisy speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 287-297

  Chien, Jen Tzung ^a   Wang, Hsiao Chuan ^b   Lee, Lee Min ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MING CHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Likelihood measure; Noise interference; Robustness; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); PROJECTION-BASED LIKELIHOOD MEASURE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032116602     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00024-7     Document Type: Article

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