A Robust Word Boundary Detection Algorithm for Variable Noise-Level Environment in Cars

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-100

  Lin, Chin Teng ^a   Lin, Jiann Yow ^a   Wu, Gin Der ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mel scale frequency; Multiband; Spectrum analysis; Time frequency; Word boundary detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141475749     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6979.994798     Document Type: Article

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