A general joint additive and convolutive bias compensation approach applied to noisy lombard speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 524-537

  Afify, Mohamed ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Bias compensation; Continuous density hmm; Lombard speech; Noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ADDITIVE BIAS COMPENSATION ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS DENSITY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (CDHMM); EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) METHOD; LOMBARD SPEECH; PARALLEL MODEL COMBINATION (PMC) TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032203405     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.725319     Document Type: Article

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