A comparative analysis of noise robust speech features extracted from all-pass based warping with MFCC in a noisy phoneme recognition

Proceedings - The 3rd International Conference on Digital Telecommunications, ICDT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 180-185

  Muralishankar, R ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Douglas ^b  

^a PES UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cepstrum; PMVDR; Robustness; Speech recognition; Warped discrete fourier transform; WDFTC

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BLOCK CODES; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WEAVING;

CEPSTRUM; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; MFCC FEATURES; MINIMUM VARIANCE; NOISE RATIOS; NOISE ROBUST; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NOISE TYPES; NOISY CONDITIONS; PHONEME RECOGNITION; PMVDR; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; ROBUSTNESS; WARPED DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM; WDFTC;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 51849101213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDT.2008.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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