Accurate compensation in the log-spectral domain for noisy speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 388-398

  Afify, Mohamed ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Log spectral domain; Noise compensation; Robust speech recognition; Vector Taylor series

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEOREM PROVING;

LOG-SPECTRAL DOMAIN; NOISE COMPENSATION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 18744396687     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845811     Document Type: Article

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