Towards spike-based speech processing: A biologically plausible approach to simple acoustic classification

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-137

  Uysal, Ismail ^a   Sathyendra, Harsha ^a   Harris, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase locking; Psychoacoustics; Speech perception; Speech recognition; Spike coding; Synchrony coding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FILTER BANKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROGRAMMING THEORY; REMELTING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; WAVE FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC CLASSIFICATION; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ASR SYSTEMS; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION; DATA SETS; EARLY STAGES; ENGINEERED SYSTEMS; FEATURE SETS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM (HAS); LIQUID STATES; MEL FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENT (MFCC); NON-STATIONARITY; PERFORMANCE TESTING; RANK ORDER CODING; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPIKE CODING; SPIKE TRAINS; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

SPEECH;

EID: 45849093286     PISSN: 1641876X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10006-008-0012-0     Document Type: Article

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