Robust feature extraction for continuous speech recognition using the MVDR spectrum estimation method

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 224-234

  Dharanipragada, Satya ^a   Yapanel, Umit H ^b,c   Rao, Bhaskar D ^d  

^a Citadel Investment Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Infoture Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distortionless response; Minimum variance; Robust feature extraction for continuous speech recognition; Spectral analysis; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASS SEPARABILITY; DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; FISHER LINEAR DISCRIMINANTS; HIGH NOISE; IN-CAR SPEECH RECOGNITION; MEL-FREQUENCY CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; MINIMUM VARIANCE; MINIMUM VARIANCE DISTORTIONLESS RESPONSE; PERCEPTUAL INFORMATIONS; PERCEPTUAL LINEAR PREDICTIONS; ROBUST FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEAKER VARIABILITIES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ESTIMATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TESTS; WALL STREET JOURNALS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 53149126814     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.876776     Document Type: Article

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