On second-order statistics and linear estimation of cepstral coefficients

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 162-176

  Ephraim, Yariv ^a   Rahim, Mazin ^b  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cepstral statistics; Hidden markov model; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

CEPSTRAL STATISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033099548     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.748121     Document Type: Article

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41. Y. Ephraim and H. L. Van Tress, "A signal subspace approach for speech enhancement," IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Processing, vol. 3, pp. 251-266, July 1995. Yariv Ephraim (S'82-M'84-SM'90-F'94) received the D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1984 from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He was a Rothschild Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, from 1984 to 1985. He was a Member of Technical Staff at the Information Principles Research Laboratory of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1985 to 1993. In 1991. he ioined Georce Mason University, Fairfax, VA, where he currently is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering. Mazin Rahim (S'86-M'91-SM'96) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Liverpool, U.K., in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He is currently a Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs Research, Murray Hill, NJ, where he is pursuing research in the areas of robustness, acoustic modeling, and utterance verification for automatic speech recognition. Prior to joining AT&T, he was a Research Professor with the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, where he was engaged in research in neural networks for speech and speaker recognition. He has over 40 publications in the area of speech processing and is the author of the book Artificial Neural Neru-orks for Speech Analysis/Synthesis (London, U.K.: Chapman & Hall, 1994). Dr. Rahim is currently an associate editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH AND AUDIO PROCESSING. He has been an invited guest at several speech processing workshops, including the U.S. government sponsored CAIP workshops in 1993 and 1994. He is a recipient of several professional awards, including two best papers from IEE in 1989 and from ASA in 1992. He is a member of the British Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE).