A method of joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions for speaker-independent speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 975-983

  Gong, Yifan ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive and convolutive distortion; Channel estimation; EM algorithm; Noisy speech recognition; Robust speech recognition; Speech signal modeling

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE AND CONVOLUTIVE DISTORTION; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; EM ALGORITHMS; NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SIGNAL MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; MICROPHONES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL DISTORTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27644486095     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.851963     Document Type: Article

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