Histogram equalization of speech representation for robust speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-366

  De La Torre, Ángel ^a   Peinado, Antonio M ^a   Segura, José C ^a   Pérez Córdoba, José L ^a   Benítez, Ma Carmen ^a   Rubio, Antonio J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cepstral mean normalization; Histogram equalization; Mean and variance normalization; Mel frequency cepstral coefficients; Probability density function (pdf); Robust speech recognition; Vector Taylor series approach

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VECTORS;

CEPSTRAL MEAN NORMALIZATION; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; MEAN AND VARIENCE NORMALIZATION; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES APPROACH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 18744371585     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845805     Document Type: Article

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