Graceful degradation of speech recognition performance over packet-erasure networks

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 580-590

  Boulis, Constantinos ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a   Riskin, Eve A ^a   Otterson, Scott ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Bit allocation; Forward error correction; Packet loss; Speech recognition; Unequal loss protection

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PACKET NETWORKS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036880137     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.804532     Document Type: Article

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