ATR parallel decoding based speech recognition system robust to noise and speaking styles

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 989-997

  Matsuda, Shigeki ^a,b,c   Jitsuhiro, Takatoshi ^a,b,d   Markov, Konstantin ^a,c,d,e,f   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a,g  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b Acoustic Society of Japan   (Singapore)

^c IPSJ   (Japan)

^d IEEE

^e Acoustics and Speech Processing Department

^f ATR SLC ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Fast noise adaptation; Hyper articulated speech; Multiple acoustic models; Parallel decoding; Speaking style

Indexed keywords

DECODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HYPER-ARTICULATED SPEECH; MULTIPLE ACOUSTIC MODELS; PARALLEL DECODING; FAST NOISE ADAPTATION; SPEAKING STYLE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECODING;

EID: 33645752847     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.3.989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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