Likelihood-maximizing beamforming for robust hands-free speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-498

  Seltzer, Michael L ^a   Raj, Bhiksha ^b   Stern, Richard M ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Mitsubishi Electric Research   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Beamforming; Distant talking environments; Microphone array processing; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; DISTORTION (WAVES); MICROPHONES; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BEAMFORMING; DISTANCE-TALKING ENVIRONMENT; MICROPHONE ARRAY PROCESSING; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 4344607755     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.832988     Document Type: Article

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