Linear spectral transformation for robust speech recognition using maximum mutual information

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 496-499

  Kim, Donghyun ^a   Yook, Dongsuk ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Linear spectral transformation; Maximum mutual information (MMI); Rapid adaptation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

EXTENDED BAUM-WELCH ALGORITHM; LINEAR SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATION; MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION (MMI); POSTERIORI PROBABILITY; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34347395939     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2006.891337     Document Type: Article

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