Investigations into early and late reflections on distant-talking speech recognition toward suitable reverberation criteria

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1369-1372

  Nishiura, Takanobu ^a   Hirano, Yoshiki ^a   Denda, Yuki ^a   Nakayama, Masato ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic reflection; Distant talking speech recognition; Reverberation criterion; Room acoustics

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; ELASTIC WAVES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC PARAMETERS; ACOUSTIC REFLECTION; DISTANT-TALKING SPEECH RECOGNITION; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; REVERBERATION CRITERIA; REVERBERATION TIME; ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION; ROOM ACOUSTICS;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 56149112846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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