An FFT-based companding front end for noise-robust automatic speech recognition

Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Raj, Bhiksha ^a   Turicchia, Lorenzo ^b   Schmidt Nielsen, Bent ^a   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 36248982228     PISSN: 16874714     EISSN: 16874722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2007/65420     Document Type: Article

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