On the use of evolutionary algorithms to improve the robustness of continuous speech recognition systems in adverse conditions

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 814-823

  Selouani, Sid Ahmed ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Hidden Markov models; Karhunen Lo ve transform; Robustness; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

NOISE ENVIRONMENTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0041430713     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703302070     Document Type: Article

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