Robust speech recognition and feature extraction using HMM2

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 195-211

  Weber, Katrin ^a,b   Ikbal, Shajith ^a,b   Bengio, Samy ^a   Bourlard, Hervé ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038697764     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(03)00012-3     Document Type: Article

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