Robust speech recognition using the modulation spectrogram

Speech Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 117-132

  Kingsbury, Brian E D ^a,b   Morgan, Nelson ^a,b   Greenberg, Steven ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Reverberation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ERROR COMPENSATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MODULATION; REVERBERATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC INTERFERENCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032136330     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00032-6     Document Type: Article

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