Analytic assessment of telephone transmission impact on ASR performance using a simulation model

Speech Communication

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 441-459

  Möller, Sebastian ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ASR performance; Quality assessment; Simulation; Telephone speech

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036836689     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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