Environmental sniffing: Noise knowledge estimation for robust speech systems

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 465-477

  Akbacak, Murat ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

In vehicle systems; Noise classification; Noise modeling; Noise tracking; Robust speech recognition; ROVER; Speech enhancement; T2 BIC

Indexed keywords

IN-VEHICLE SYSTEMS; NOISE CLASSIFICATION; NOISE MODELING; NOISE TRACKING; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROVER; T2-BIC;

ACOUSTICS; AUTOMOBILE TESTING; CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; REMELTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 50449102573     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.881694     Document Type: Article

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