A spatio-temporal speech enhancement scheme for robust speech recognition in noisy environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 393-407

  Visser, Erik ^a   Otsuka, Manabu ^b   Lee, Te Won ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; Noisy environments; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MICROPHONES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037697289     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(03)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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