Quantile based histogram equalization for noise robust large vocabulary speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 845-854

  Hilger, Florian ^b   Ney, Hermann ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b Telenet GmbH Kommunikationsysteme   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Histogram normalization; Noise robust speech recognition; Quantile equalization

Indexed keywords

HISTOGRAM NORMALIZATION; NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; QUANTILE EQUALIZATION; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34047249084     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.857792     Document Type: Article

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