Using multiple acoustic feature sets for speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 514-525

  Zolnay, András ^a   Kocharov, Daniil ^b   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acoustic feature extraction; Articulatory features; Auditory features; Discriminative model combination; Linear discriminant analysis; Spectrum derivative feature; Voicing

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; AUDITORY FEATURES; DISCRIMINATIVE MODEL COMBINATION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA); SPECTRUM DERIVATIVE FEATURES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 34250015828     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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