Discriminative Auditory-Based Features for Robust Speech Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-36

  Mak, Brian Kan Wing ^a   Tam, Yik Cheung ^b   Li, Peter Qi ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Li Creative Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory based filter; Discriminative feature extraction; Generalized probabilistic descent; Minimum classification error

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY-BASED FILTERS; LINEAR PREDICTIVE COEFFICIENT (LPC);

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0742272653     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.819951     Document Type: Article

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