ASR in mobile phones - An industrial approach

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 562-569

  Varga, Imre ^a   Aalburg, Stefanie ^a   Andrassy, Bernt ^a   Astrov, Sergey ^a   Bauer, Josef G ^a   Beaugeant, Christophe ^a   Geißler, Christian ^a   Höge, Harald ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data compression; Feature extraction; Fixed point arithmetic; Hidden Markov models; Mobile phones; Parameter estimation; Robustness; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

DATA COMPRESSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

VERY SMART RECOGNIZERS (VSR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036879736     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.804548     Document Type: Article

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