Speech recognition for a humanoid with motor noise utilizing missing feature theory

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 26-33

  Nishimura, Yoshitaka ^a   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^a   Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^b   Nakano, Mikio ^b   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ACOUSTICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MICROPHONES; MOTORS; POLARIZATION; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; HUMAN PERCEPTIONS; HUMANOID ROBOTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MISSING FEATURE THEORY; MOTOR NOISE; NOISE DATA; NOISE SOURCES; NOISE-SUPPRESSION; NOISY SPEECH; TARGET SPEECH;

REMELTING;

EID: 48149111531     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2006.321359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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