Hidden markov model training with contaminated speech material for distant-talking speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 205-223

  Matassoni, Marco ^a   Omologo, Maurizio ^a   Giuliani, Diego ^a   Svaizer, Piergiorgio ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

CONTAMINATED SPEECH MATERIAL; DISTANT TALKING SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; INCREMENTAL ADAPTATION; SPEECH ACTIVITY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036556170     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.2002.0191     Document Type: Article

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