Frequency warping by linear transformation of standard MFCC

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 397-400

  Panchapagesan, Sankaran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency warping; Linear transformation; Speaker adaptation; Speaker normalization; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTER BANKS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

FREQUENCY WARPING; LINEAR TRANSFORM; OUTPUT DOMAIN; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; SPECTRAL INTERPOLATION; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 44949157762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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