Adaptive noise reduction and voice activity detection for improved verbal human-robot interaction using binaural data

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1782-1787

  Brueckmann, Robert ^a   Scheidig, Andrea ^a   Gross, Horst Michael ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; SOUND SOURCES;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 36349005296     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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