Distant speech recognition: Bridging the gaps

2008 Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Proceedings, HSCMA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 108-114

  McDonough, John ^a   Wölfel, Matthias ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Beamforming; Joint denoising and dereveberation; Microphone arrays; Multi step linear prediction; Particle filter; Speech feature enhancement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ARRAY PROCESSING; KETONES; MICROPHONES; SOLUTIONS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BEAMFORMING; JOINT DENOISING AND DEREVEBERATION; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-STEP LINEAR PREDICTION; PARTICLE FILTER; SPEECH FEATURE ENHANCEMENT;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 50449097590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2008.4538699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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