Closely coupled array processing and model-based compensation for microphone array speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1114-1122

  Zhao, Xianyu ^a,b   Ou, Zhijian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Microphone array; Model based compensation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSORS; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; BEAMFORMERS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATIONS; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FILTERED SIGNALS; MICROPHONE ARRAY; MODEL-BASED; MODEL-BASED COMPENSATION; MULTI INPUT MULTI OUTPUTS; MULTI-CHANNEL MODELS; MULTICHANNEL; MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; NOISE COMPENSATIONS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SINGLE INPUTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; TARGET SIGNALS; VECTOR TAYLOR SERIES;

ARRAY PROCESSING; MICROPHONES; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 50449094088     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.881673     Document Type: Article

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