A noise robust feature extraction algorithm using joint wavelet packet subband decomposition and AR modeling of speech signals

Signal Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1202-1223

  Kotnik, Bojan ^a   Kačič, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Autoregressive modeling; Modified soft thresholding; Noise robust speech parameterization; Wavelet packet decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PACKET NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING; MODIFIED SOFT THRESHOLDING; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH PARAMETERIZATION; WAVELET PACKET DECOMPOSITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33847103626     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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