Robust speech recognition system for communication robots in real environments

Proceedings of the 2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 340-345

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

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE DEVICES; PROBABILITY; REMELTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; APPLICATION RANGE; ASR SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; CHILDREN SPEECH; COMMUNICATION ROBOTS; CONFIDENCE MEASURES; DIALOG PROCESSING; END-POINT DETECTION; GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER; HUMANOID ROBOTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MMSE CRITERION; MULTI CHANNELS; NOISE-SUPPRESSION; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROBUSTNESS; SPEECH ACTIVITY; WORD ACCURACY; WORD POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 48149086425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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