Combining media-specific FEC and error concealment for robust distributed speech recognition over loss-prone packet channels

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1228-1238

  Gómez, Angel M ^b   Peinado, Antonio M ^a,b   Sánchez, Victoria ^a,b   Rubio, Antonio J ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed speech recognition; Error concealment; Forward error correction; MMSE estimation; Packet loss; Packet switching; Weighted Viterbi recognition

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION (DSR); ERROR CONCEALMENT; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE); PACKET LOSSES; WEIGHTED VITERBI RECOGNITION (WVR);

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR COMPENSATION; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33845666211     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.884611     Document Type: Article

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