Vocal tract normalization equals linear transformation in cepstral space

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 930-944

  Pitz, Michael ^b,c   Ney, Hermann ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BMW GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linear transformation; Speaker adaptive modeling and training; Speaker adaptive recognition; Speech recognition; Vocal tract (length) normalization

Indexed keywords

LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE MODELING AND TRAINING; SPEAKER ADAPTIVE RECOGNITION; VOCAL TRACT (LENGTH) NORMALIZATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27644522706     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.848881     Document Type: Article

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