MVA processing of speech features

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 257-270

  Chen, Chia Ping ^a,b   Bilmes, Jeff A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

ARMA filter; Aurora 2.0; Aurora 3.0; Feature extraction; Front end processing; Mean subtraction; MFCC; Noise robustness; RASTA; Speech recognition; Temporal smoothing; Variance normalization

Indexed keywords

ARMA FILTER; AURORA 2.0; AURORA 3.0; FRONT END PROCESSING; MEAN SUBTRACTION; MFCC; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; RASTA; TEMPORAL SMOOTHING; VARIANCE NORMALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIR FILTERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 42549139762     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876717     Document Type: Article

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