Adaptive co-channel speech separation and recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-151

  Yen, Kuan Chieh ^a   Zhao, Yunxin ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic channel estimation; Active source signal detection; Adaptive decorrelation filtering; Automatic speech recognition; Co channel speech separation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATED ADAPTIVE DECORRELATION FILTERING (AADF); ACOUSTIC CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COCHANNEL SPEECH SEPARATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033097299     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.748119     Document Type: Article

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19. Y. Zhao, "Self-learning speaker and channel adaptation based on spectral variation source decomposition," Speech Commun., vol. 18, pp. 65-77, Jan. 1996. Kuan-Chieh Yen received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1990, and the M.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1994. He is currently a Research Assistant at Beckman Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering. Yunxin Zhao (S'86-M'88-SM'94) received the Ph.D. degree in 1988 from University of Washington, Seattle. She was Senior Research Staff and Project Leader of the Speech Technology Laboratory, Panasonic Technologies Inc., from 1988 to 1994. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), from 1994 to 1998. She is currently Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia. Her research interests are in spoken language processing, multimedia interface, multimodal human-computer interaction, statistical pattern recognition, statistical blind identification and estimation, speech and signal processing, and biomedical applications. Dr. Zhao currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING. She received a 1995 NSF Career Award, and is listed in American Men and Women of Science.