Cepstrum-domain acoustic feature compensation based on decomposition of speech and noise for asr in noisy environments

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 435-446

  Kim, Hong Kook ^a   Rose, Richard C ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic feature compensation; Cepstrum compensation; Noise robust front end; Speech enhancement; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SPEECH ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0042362207     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.815515     Document Type: Article

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