Analysis and recognition of whispered speech

Speech Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-152

  Ito, Taisuke ^a   Takeda, Kazuya ^a   Itakura, Fumitada ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Noise robustness; Speech recognition; Telephone handset; Whispered speech

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; SPEECH SIGNALS; WHISPERED SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 13544263200     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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