Low-bitrate distributed speech recognition for packet-based and wireless communication

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 570-579

  Bernard, Alexis ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Distributed speech recognition (DSR); Joint channel decoding speech recognition; Soft decision decoding; Weighted Viterbi algorithm; Wireless and packet (IP) communication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECODING; ERROR DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH CODING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL CODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036880073     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.808141     Document Type: Article

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