Performance of an HMM speech recognizer using a real-time tracking microphone array as input

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 346-349

  Hughes, Tadd B ^a   Kim, Hong Seok ^a   Dibiase, Joseph H ^a   Silverman, Harvey F ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ALPHA DIGITS SPEECH RECOGNIZER; CLOSE TALKING MICROPHONE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MICROPHONE ARRAY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032677010     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.759045     Document Type: Article

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