Auditory processing of speech signals for robust speech recognition in real-world noisy environments

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-68

  Kim, Doh Suk ^a,c   Lee, Soo Young ^b   Kil, Rhee M ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Noise robustness; Speech recognition; Zero crossing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032785783     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.736331     Document Type: Article

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