Towards improving the robustness of distributed speech recognition in packet loss

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1402-1421

  James, Alastair ^a   Milner, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed speech recognition; Interleaving; MAP reconstruction; Packet loss; Weighted Viterbi decoding

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA REDUCTION; DECODING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VECTORS;

DATA CHANNELS; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION (DSR); INTERLEAVING; MAP RECONSTRUCTION; PACKET LOSS; WEIGHTED-VITERBI DECODING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33750368383     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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