Combining spectral representations for large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 508-518

  Garau, Giulia ^a   Renals, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feature combination; Heteroscedastic linear discriminant analysis (HLDA); Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR); Pitch synchronous; ROVER; STRAIGHT; Vocal tract length normalization (VTLN)

Indexed keywords

FEATURE COMBINATION; HETEROSCEDASTIC LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (HLDA); LARGE-VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION (LVCSR); PITCH-SYNCHRONOUS; ROVER; STRAIGHT; VOCAL TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION (VTLN);

ACOUSTICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 59849090295     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.916519     Document Type: Article

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