Switching linear dynamical systems for noise robust speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1850-1858

  Mesot, B ^a   Barber, D ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Approximate inference; Expectation correction; Isolated digit recognition; Linear dynamical system; Noise robustness; Switching autoregressive process

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE INFERENCE; EXPECTATION CORRECTION; ISOLATED DIGIT RECOGNITION; LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEM; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; SWITCHING AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SWITCHING; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 54349106040     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.901312     Document Type: Article

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