Cepstrum derived from differentiated power spectrum for robust speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 469-484

  Chen, Jingdong ^a   Paliwal, Kuldip K ^b   Nakamura, Satoshi ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cepstral mean normalization; Differential power spectrum; Hidden Markov model; Linear liftering; Robust speech recognition; Spectral subtraction

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0038373389     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(03)00016-5     Document Type: Article

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