Human and machine consonant recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 401-423

  Sroka, Jason J ^a   Braida, Louis D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Consonant identification; Filtering; Noise; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FILTRATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 15844428932     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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