Speaker tracking for hands-free continuous speech recognition in noise based on a spectrum-entropy beamforming method

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 755-758

  Nokas, George ^a   Dermatas, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Microphone array; Speaker beam former; Speaker tracking; Spectrum entropy; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ALGORITHMS; MICROPHONES; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HANDS-FREE CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; MINIMUM VARIANCE; SPEAKER BEAM-FORMER; SPEAKER TRACKING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0142248340     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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