Cepstral domain segmental nonlinear feature transformations for robust speech recognition

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 517-520

  Segura, José C ^a   Benítez, Carmen ^a   De La Torre, Ángel ^a   Rubio, Antonio J ^a   Ramírez, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Histogram equalization; Order statistics; Robustness; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CEPSTRAL DOMAIN SEGMENTAL NONLINEAR FEATURE TRANSFORMATION; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; ORDER STATISTICS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 2442509974     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2004.826648     Document Type: Letter

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