Frequency warping for VTLN and speaker adaptation by linear transformation of standard MFCC

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-64

  Panchapagesan, Sankaran ^a   Alwan, Abeer ^a  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Frequency warping; Linear transformation; Speaker adaptation; Speaker normalization; VTLN

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; FILTER BANKS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; LOUDSPEAKERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; FREQUENCY WARPING; SPEAKER ADAPTATION; SPEAKER NORMALIZATION; VTLN;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 47549091998     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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