Speech analysis in a model of the central auditory system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1802-1817

  Jeon, Woojay ^a   Juang, B H ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory model; Central auditory system; Cortex; Dimension expansion; Noise robust; Speech

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODEL; CENTRAL AUDITORY SYSTEM; CORTEX; DIMENSION EXPANSION; NOISE ROBUST;

MAMMALS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 45549100188     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.900102     Document Type: Article

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