A robust speech recognition system for communication robots in noisy environments

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 759-763

  Ishi, Carlos Toshinori ^a   Matsuda, Shigeki ^a,b   Kanda, Takayuki ^a   Jitsuhiro, Takatoshi ^a   Ishiguro, Hiroshi ^a,c   Nakamura, Satoshi ^a,b   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic noise; Children speech; Communication robots; Robustness; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

REMELTING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

APPLICATION RANGE; APPLIED (CO); ASR SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION ROBOTS; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; HUMANOID ROBOT (FHR-1); INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REAL WORLD; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD ACCURACY (WA);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 46349084479     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.919305     Document Type: Article

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