A joint particle filter and multi-step linear prediction framework to provide enhanced speech features prior to automatic recognition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 132-135

  Wölfel, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; FORECASTING; MICROPHONES; NONLINEAR FILTERING; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPEECH; WAVE FILTERS;

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

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 50449110561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSCMA.2008.4538704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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