A new perceptually motivated MVDR-based acoustic front-end (PMVDR) for robust automatic speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-152

  Yapanel, Umit H ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic feature extraction; Noise robustness analysis; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBUST CONTROL; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE (MVDR); WORD ERROR RATE (WER);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 37649022051     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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