Perceptual evaluation of blind source separation for robust speech recognition

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2578-2583

  Di Persia, Leandro ^a   Milone, Diego ^a   Rufiner, Hugo Leonardo ^a,b   Yanagida, Masuzo ^c  

^a Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^c DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blind source separation; PESQ; Quality measures; Reverberation; Robust speech recognition

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVERBERATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; OBJECTIVE QUALITY MEASURES; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION; PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITIES; PESQ; QUALITY MEASURES; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION;

EID: 54949092435     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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