Environmental conditions and acoustic transduction in hands-free speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 75-95

  Omologo, M ^a   Svaizer, P ^a   Matassoni, M ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Environmental noise; Hands free speech recognition; MAP adaptation; Microphone arrays; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; MICROPHONES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032142014     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(98)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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