Combined speech enhancement and auditory modelling for robust distributed speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 797-809

  Flynn, Ronan ^a   Jones, Edward ^b  

^a Athletic Rehabilitation Therapy Ireland   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Auditory front end; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOOD ADDITIVES; LITHIUM; REMELTING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SULFATE MINERALS;

ASR SYSTEMS; AUDITORY FRONT-END; AUDITORY MODELLING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTIONAL NOISE; DIGIT RECOGNITION; DISTRIBUTED SPEECH RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; INTERFERING NOISE; IRELAND; NOISY CONDITIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PARIS , FRANCE; PERCEPTUAL SPEECH QUALITY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRE-PROCESSING; QUALITY ASPECTS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; SPEECH QUALITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS;

SPEECH;

EID: 52949093125     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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