Dealing with uncertainty in microphone placement in a microphone array speech recognition system

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1565-1568

  Himawan, Ivan ^a   Sridharan, Sridha ^a   McCowan, Iain ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microphone Array; Speech Recognition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BEAMFORMING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; MICROPHONES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MICROPHONE ARRAY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 51449110544     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4517922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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