A study of filter bank smoothing in MFCC features for recognition of children's speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2418-2430

  Umesh, S ^a   Sinha, Rohit ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Children's speech recognition; Mel filter bank; Vocal tract length normalization

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH FILTERS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CEPSTRAL COEFFICIENTS; CHILDREN'S SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIGIT RECOGNITION; FILTER BANDWIDTHS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MEL FILTER BANK; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPECTRAL SMOOTHING; VOCAL-TRACT LENGTH NORMALIZATION;

BANDWIDTH; DEGRADATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

FILTER BANKS;

EID: 63049121231     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.906194     Document Type: Article

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