A companding front end for noise-robust automatic speech recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Guinness, Jethran ^a   Raj, Bhiksha ^a   Schmidt Nielsen, Bent ^a   Turicchia, Lorenzo ^b   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; CRITICAL BAND RESPONSE; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; SPEECH RECOGNIZER;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646815979     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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