Robust speech recognition using probabilistic union models

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 403-414

  Ming, Ji ^a,b   Jancovic, Peter ^b   Smith, F Jack ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic modeling; Noise robustness; Probabilistic union models; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELING; FREQUENCY BAND CORRUPTION; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NONSTATIONARY NOISE; PROBABILISTIC UNION MODELS; STATIONARY NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036754943     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.803439     Document Type: Article

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