On the feasibility of ASR in extreme noise using the PARAT earplug communication terminal

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 315-320

  Strand, Ole M ^a   Holter, Trym ^b   Egeberg, Andreas ^a   Stensby, Sverre ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; MICROPHONES;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNICATION TERMINAL; EXTERNAL NOISE; HEARING PROTECTORS; HIGH QUALITY; NOISE CANCELLING; SPEECH DATABASE; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846233389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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