Acoustic features and a distance measure that reduce the impact of training-test mismatch in ASR

Speech Communication

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 57-74

  De Veth, Johan ^a   De Wet, Febe ^a   Cranen, Bert ^a   Boves, Louis ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MISSING FEATURE THEORY; ROBUST LOCAL DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; ROBUST STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034823610     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00046-7     Document Type: Article

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