A new approach for the adaptation of HMMs to reverberation and background noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 244-263

  Hirsch, Hans Günter ^a   Finster, Harald ^a  

^a NIEDERRHEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hands free speech input; HMM adaptation; Reverberation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HANDS-FREE SPEECH INPUT; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATIONARY BACKGROUND NOISES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 38649115063     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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